REQ ID: 123390
JOB TITLE: Tooling & Fixture Design Engineer
SALARY: £38,123- £46,000
POSTING START DATE: 30/04/2024
POSTING END DATE: 14/05/2024
LOCATION: Gaydon
An ever-evolving heritage. A truly exciting future. Two of the world’s most iconic brands. JLR is revered across the globe. Continually pushing the boundaries of innovation and redefining the benchmark for excellence, we set the standards others want to follow. We want to keep it that way too. Which is where you join the journey.
WHAT TO EXPECT
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. Design Projects will be varied. 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 JLR Tooling and 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:
- 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 JLR 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.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Ability to do Compatibility Assessments / Impact Assessments.
- Ability to generate and resolve Design Snags and Issues. Driving resolutions of issues and feeding back.
- Buy Offs and Handover. To manage buy-off and hand-over of tooling designs with Customers and Tool room.
- 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.
SO WHY US?
Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you’ll find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, a discounted car purchase and lease scheme for you and your family, membership of a competitive pension plan and performance related bonus scheme. All this and more makes JLR the perfect place to continue your journey.
JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.