Manufacturing Engineer - Fixture Design

Job Requirements

At Quest Global, it’s not only our actions but also our approach and motivation that sets us apart. With a rich history of 25 years as a provider of engineering services, we believe in the transformative power of innovation to achieve the seemingly impossible. Our team is motivated by the aspiration to create a positive impact on the world—to contribute to a better future. We unite various technologies and sectors, harnessing the diverse talents of individuals who are empowered by a purpose-driven work environment, to enhance problem-solving efficiency and effectiveness.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

A 2–5 years of degree in Mechanical/Fixture Design Engineering and 2+ years relevant and shown Manufacturing technician/engineering experience.

Design

• Design, development, and qualification of fixtures and gages for turbine blades, vanes, and other components.

• Craft and develop tooling that improves the capability and efficiency of the production process.

• Design and development of tooling for machining processes.

• Design and development of custom gages for inspection processes.

• Lead the fixture and gage manufacture; collaborating with suppliers (internal and external), management, purchasing, and logistics to obtain quotations and realize the repair of fixtures and gages.

• Develop work instructions, procedures, key cards, and related Engineering and Manufacturing documentation for fixture and gage design, use and build.

• Apply the standardized approach to tool and fixture designs in a Siemens NX and Teamcenter environment.

• Collaborate with WSC Manufacturing engineer(s), Production, Quality to ensure tooling is designed, repaired to meet their performance expectations and production needs.

• Project leadership of tooling engineering projects (scheduling, experimentation, reporting, documentation) with full responsibility for due dates, results, and costs associated with your field of activities.

• Lead tooling projects through all phases, conception, R&D, qualification, production implementation, and continued production support.

• Lead continuous process improvements (analysis, solution finding, implementation) around tool design and use processes and methods.

• Work with production personnel to implement, solve, and improve fixtures and gages and their associated processes.

• Collaborate with management, product engineering, peer engineers, and operators to realize high-quality, stable processes. Provide data and documentation for product process qualifications (PPQ), work instructions, and manufacturing quality control plans.

Inspection

• Collaborate with manufacturing engineers and quality to identify effective critical to quality inspection requirements to support effective inspections both manual and/or CMM.

•  Development of inspection plans for validating fixtures including CTQ drawings.

•  Collaborate with Quality to repair fixtures and gages that are identified as non-conforming during validation.

Repair

• Analyze inspection data for reported out-of-tolerance or worn conditions.

• Develop and implement vital repair actions with Siemens tool room and/or external suppliers.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure repairs are completed and accepted by partners, production, engineering, and quality.

• Own the fixture and gage repair logistics; collaborating with suppliers (internal and external), management, purchasing, and logistics to obtain quotations and realize the repair of fixtures and gages.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Interpretation of product and manufacturing drawings and specifications

• Siemens NX CAD/Drafting and product data management systems. 

• NX 11

• Siemens Teamcenter

• GD&T

• Parametric model definition tools of NX and Assembly modeling with inter part linking.

• Identifying, analyzing, and correcting fixture and gage issues.

• Upstream and Downstream processes used in turbine component manufacturing is a plus.

• MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)

EDUCATION

Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering (Bachelors or Masters)