VIRTUAL MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING / TOOLING STRATEGY & DESIGN ENGINEER

The Opportunity

ASSEMBLY JIG FIXTURE and PALLET DESIGN ENGINEER & PROJECT CONTROL

This is a Jig & Fixture Design Engineer role within Manufacturing Engineering. Responsibilities will include the design of both Body In White (BIW) and Trim and Final (T&F) Assembly Fixtures. The more experience you can evidence the better. 

You will be responsible for the Fixture Design from Kick Off to Design Delivery and Successfully physical fixture handover. You will be required to support the continual development of the Department Lessons Learnt (Continual Improvement), and the continual development of the client’s Tooling & Design Standards.

You will be required to demonstrate a wide range of previous Assembly Fixture experiences. The skills we are looking are, but not limited to, the following abilities…

·       Engineering Design Skills and Locator Strategy knowledge

·       Concept design and detailed design of Pallets

·       3D Detail Design and 2D Detail Drawing experience

·       To Project Manage a Design Project with minimal Lead Eng support

·       To Co-ordinate and Manage Internal Customers and Suppliers (to provide data in a timely manner)

·       To Drive Improvements into our Standards, Processes and Methods of working

·       To Create and Update into our Standards, Processes and Methods of working

·       To gain Customer Feedback, and drive that back into our working practices

The Assembly Fixture and Pallet Design Role will sometimes be assigned to a particular Vehicle Programme, whose deliverables timing are governed by the client’s Programme Timing framework. The Role could also be assigned to individual Design Commissions, where the timing is governed by the Customer Requirement for Functionality and Timing. 

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Projects could include (but not limited to) …

Body In White

·       BIW Assembly Fixtures (Geometry and Non-Geometry)

·       Pallets

·       Grippers (Geo and Non-Geo)

·       Transfer System End Effectors, Put Downs, Take-Outs

Trim & Final

·       T&F Assembly Jigs and Fixtures (Geometry and Non-Geometry)

·       Pallets

·       Hand Tools

·       Lift Assistor End Effectors

·       Carrier End Effectors

·       Chassis Engine and Decking area Tooling / Hand Tools / End Effectors

·       Robotic Cells Tooling - Tooling / Grippers / End Effectors

KEY INTERACTIONS / INTERFACES

·       BIW Manufacturing (Process, Joining, Facilities and Standards & Controls)

·       BIW and T&F Simulation

·       Trim & Final Facilities and Process Engineering

·       Product Engineering

·       Tooling & Press Parts Group (Parts Stamping)

·       Internal and External Tool Rooms

·       Vendor Tooled Parts Suppliers

·       Part Dimensional Maturation Team (DMBI – Dimensional Maturation & Build Integrity)

·       SE Partners / Line Builders Vendors / Direct Sourced Design Houses (All where applicable)

·       Programme Management

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL

·       Ability to do Compatibility Assessments / Impact Assessments

·       Working knowledge of Assembly and Part Locator Strategy Requirements

·       3D Tool Design Skills from Concept, through Detail to Detailing and Delivery

·       Ability to generate and resolve Design Snags and Issues. Driving resolutions of issues and feeding back.

·       2D Manufacturing (Detailed) Drawing

·       Buy Offs and Handover. To manage buy-off and hand-over of tooling designs with Customers and Tool room.

·       Working knowledge of Assembly Tooling Standards and Pallet Designs

·       To comply with and ensure that all data delivered is robust, meets expectations and is properly managed

·       Demonstrable Cost Engineering. Cost & feasibility studies in support of engineering change proposals

·       Ability to assess both internal and external designs with respect to total lifetime Value For Money

Assessment (for Design, Industrialisation and Production).

·       Ability to collaborate to produce (Collision Free) Tool Collision Studies. 

·       Ability to collaborate to produce a robust Geometry Setting Process.  

DESIRABLE

·       Vendor Tool Design Experience

·       Pneumatic Controls Engineer

·       Electrical Controls Engineer (E Plan)

·       Experience of working on JLR Projects

·       Knowledge of JLR Tooling Standards

·       Static and Dynamic Load Calculation Assessment / FEA Analysis Experience (within Catia environment)

·       Dynamic Load Analysis skills (within Catia environment)

·       Ergonomic assessments for Pallets

·       FEA Analysis skills.

·       Tool Standards. Ability to create and update JLR Tool Standards.

·       Basic RobCAD abilities (ability to load high level viewing of RobCAD files within the RobCAD environment)

·       Catia v6 trained.

PERSONAL PROFILE

  We are looking for someone who is:

·       A strong team player, who actively supports team members

·       An individual with good problem solving skills, with the ability to drive effective engineering solutions

·       An individual with the ability to effectively plan and deliver against customer and programme requirements

·       A resilient and enthusiastic individual, who responds constructively to new ideas and inputs

·       A good communicator with the ability to communicate complex ideas, across multi-functional groups

·       A proactive individual with the ability to challenge existing thinking in a positive way, whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style

We are looking for Designers who come with a wealth of Design experience across the Automotive Build Process. If you can meet some of the criteria above, we look forward to your application.