Petersen is looking for a Tooling Design Engineering Manager to lead a team of draftsmen and mechanical engineers to support external customers, internal engineering teams, and shop floor associates in activities ranging from quoting design activities to designing shipping fixtures and internal tooling. This role acts as a support organizational within Petersen for engineering, continuous improvement, and operations teams as a technical resource.
Requirements
- Sign-off on final designs and other associated approvals
- Supervise, maintain and develop Engineering Standards and product catalog
- Must be proficient in blueprint reading, good drafting skills, including geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
- Must be familiar with the design process and specifications leading to construction documents.
- Experience with Tooling design and Lifting/Rigging plan design
- Experience conducting Stress test and analysis on Tooling and Lift aids
- Welding and Machining knowledge is critical
Responsibilities
- Collaborating on build plans with focus on design for manufacturability
- Reviewing customer prints as part of quoting activities
- Designing custom tooling and fixturing for machining and fabrication departments
- Creating prints, models, shop drawings, and detail views to support shop floor builds, machine programming, and improve project quality and efficiency
- Developing Lifting / rigging plans and tooling to support safe operations
- Completing stress tests and analysis of tooling and components
- Preparing material specifications and design calculations as required
Other
- Experience leading teams of engineering disciplines and/or drafting disciplines
- 2-5 years managing engineers
- Must have strong verbal and written communication skills to communicate both internally with teams composed of shop floor staff up to General Manager and externally with our customers as the face of Petersen Inc.
- Promote continuous improvement and training with a focus on quality, accuracy and efficiency
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience
