66U - Designer Engineer (contract)

at  Boeing

Regular and predictable attendance is required
At Boeing, our engineers share a passion to redefine what’s possible. To turn dreams into reality. To bring cutting edge technology to market. If you are seeking a dynamic, innovative environment, this opportunity is for you!
Join Boeing Production Engineering in building our next generation of amazing products. Each day, you’ll work alongside experts in production, quality, design, and supply chain roles to guide aircraft from design to delivery and beyond. Bring your ideas to Boeing and help shape the future of aerospace manufacturing.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes is seeking Mid-Level Equipment & Tool Engineers to support the tooling for the 777 models of Boeing aircraft. As a Tool Engineer, you will support a variety of tooling that is required to build the 777 fleet. This position involves utilizing engineering expertise to develop and/or modify highly complex multi-purpose tools, or tools used in high precision, limited space applications to meet production reliability and safety needs.
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):

• Provides engineering expertise in tooling design and development.
• Evaluates program and project requirements, develops complex equipment and tooling concepts and designs solutions for the Production System.
• Compiles and analyzes technical data to determine the effects on product engineering design, usability, and rate estimates.
• Leads the creation and modification of tooling definition including gated reviews and develops plans for production readiness, preventative maintenance, and spares.
• Ensures compliance with safety, producibility, maintainability, reliability, ergonomic factors and regulatory requirements.
• Troubleshoots current production issues related to quality, safety, and repeatability.
• Develops and implements work-arounds and maintains configuration of hardware and documentation.
• Perform studies and make recommendations for disposition of assets.
• Develops concepts and designs in CATIA and present them for technical and financial approval.
• Participates in tool try-outs to ensure requirements are met.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

• Bachelor or higher from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, technology, physics or chemistry or equivalent Engineering Experience (ABET is preferred, although not required accreditation standard)
• 5 or more years of experience with production systems in a manufacturing or engineering capacity

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 5 or more years of experience working in an Equipment or Tool Engineering 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 of experience checking and reviewing engineering designs and drawings
• 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
• Familiarity with Boeing Tool Engineering systems, processes and procedures
• Experience using basic Microsoft Office and office computing systems
• Project Management Knowledge
• Strong written and oral communication Skills
• Motivated self-starter that may be asked to train less experienced engineers.
• Ability to collaborate with both the Engineering work force and the mechanics on the factory floor operations team

• Provides engineering expertise in tooling design and development.
• Evaluates program and project requirements, develops complex equipment and tooling concepts and designs solutions for the Production System.
• Compiles and analyzes technical data to determine the effects on product engineering design, usability, and rate estimates.
• Leads the creation and modification of tooling definition including gated reviews and develops plans for production readiness, preventative maintenance, and spares.
• Ensures compliance with safety, producibility, maintainability, reliability, ergonomic factors and regulatory requirements.
• Troubleshoots current production issues related to quality, safety, and repeatability.
• Develops and implements work-arounds and maintains configuration of hardware and documentation.
• Perform studies and make recommendations for disposition of assets.
• Develops concepts and designs in CATIA and present them for technical and financial approval.
• Participates in tool try-outs to ensure requirements are met