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PDS Tech Commercial is seeking candidates for a Tool Designer position in Everett, WA

A successful candidate in this role will have passion, creativity, and an insatiable desire for process improvement and efficiency. They will also have a strong desire to be out in the factory, interacting with mechanics, safety, and equipment services, and directly supporting the production system. In Production Engineering, we need highly responsible professionals committed to upholding the highest standards of safety, quality, and integrity.

Primary responsibilities:

This is an equipment and tooling development, implementation, and improvement role. Your duties will include (but are not limited to):

Investigates and develops equipment and tooling concepts and specifications to satisfy aerospace product design and build requirements.

Participates in design reviews, collects design requirements, creates and revises drawings and models to support the build plan.

Creates specifications, purchase requests and usage instructions for equipment and tooling.

Self-checks designs for compliance with safety, producibility, maintainability, reliability, ergonomic factors and regulatory requirements.

Develops and documents equipment and tooling inspection and usage instructions, preventative maintenance plans, and supports user training development.

Researches designs to create and revise usage instructions. Provides technical support for engineering changes and discrepancies by investigating problems, and analyzing data to identify solutions.

Maintains hardware and software configuration. Supports the disposition of equipment and tooling.

Partner with the Company's global network to develop and release tool/equipment designs.

Manage and support all aspects of the tooling value stream.

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g. Associate) and typically 3 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g. Bachelor+1 years' related work experience, 5 years' related work experience, etc.).

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

• 5 or more years of experience with production systems in a manufacturing or production capacity

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 5 or more years of experience working in an Equipment or Tool Designer role

• 5 or more years of experience working in a production environment

• 3 or more years of CATIA V5 solid modeling experience

• 3 or more years of working GD&T experience

• 1 or more years leading teams in a leadership role

• 1 or more years of experience working to industry standards including compliance with hardware and safety codes

• 1 or more years of experience working with hardware configuration management

• Experience with programming, integrating or troubleshooting industrial controls from OEMs such as ABB or FANUC, or PLCs, NCs, HMIs, or Drives such as Siemens, FANUC or Allen Bradley

• Project Management Knowledge

• Strong Communication Skills

• Motivated self-starter that may be asked to train less experienced designers.

• Ability to collaborate with both the engineering work force and the mechanics on the factory floor

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.