Assembly Jig Fixture and Pallet Design Engineer & Project Control

Order Ref: 36909

Position Title: Assembly JigFixture and Pallet Design Engineer& Project Control

Duration: 4 Month Rolling Contract

Location: Gaydon

Division: Manufacturing Engineering

Position Description:

• Assembly JigFixture 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.
• 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 the Clients' 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 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 Clients' 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.

Skills Required:

• 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.

Experience Required:

• 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

Experience Preferred:

• Vendor Tool Design Experience Pneumatic Controls Engineer Electrical Controls Engineer (E Plan) Experience of working on the Clients' Projects
• Knowledge of the Clients 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 Client Tool Standards.
• Basic RobCAD abilities (ability to load high level viewing of RobCAD files within the RobCAD environment)
• Catia V5 and Catia v6 trained.