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Tooling Designer
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Tooling Designer (Mechanical Tooling Design Engineer)
Derby – 4 or 5 days per week in the office, potentially 1 day per week from home
Inside IR35 or permanent staff role
Nuclear sector – open to experience from other highly regulated sectors
A Tooling Designer is required to work for a large Nuclear company based in Derby on either an inside IR35 contract basis or a permanent staff basis.
This role will be ideal for a candidate with experience in either the Nuclear sector or other highly regulated sectors such as Aerospace/ Defence
Flexibility will be provided with the software experience
Role purpose
You will be joining an Embedded Team as a Tooling Design Engineer / Senior Mechanical Designer. As the Tooling Designer, you will be responsible for performing full lifecycle engineering activities across a range of engineering projects which will form part of the submarine’s new build and development programmes.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Designing tooling, jigs fixtures and components that meet customer requirements
- Produce outline design
- As the Tooling Designer, you will identify, formulate, and produce solutions to emerging problems
- Evaluate final product’s overall performance, reliability, and safety
- Alter and modify design to meet requirements customer requirements
- As the Tooling Designer, you will estimate budget and scope of project
- Management of Risk and Opportunity
- Prepare product reports and documentation
- As the Tooling Designer, you will engage in lifelong learning and develop new theories or methods
Qualifications
- Experience in similar roles with specific emphasis (but not limited to) Valves, Pressure Vessel, Structural, Tooling or Lifting Equipment Design.
- As the Tooling Designer, you will have proven working experience in mechanical engineering
- Understanding of relevant design codes and safety legislation
- Ability to define budgets/work programmes for complete design project lifecycles e.g., requirements capture, concept design and detailed design.
- Knowledge of materials
- As the Tooling Designer, you will have familiarity with 3D CAD systems (Siemens NX or similar)
- Familiarity with PLM systems (Teamcentre or similar)
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