Lead Tooling Engineer - Customer Operations & CI - Contractor Inside IR35 6-12m
2 days ago
Pitstone
Join Our Team as a Technical Lead for Tooling Engineering!\n Are you ready to take your career to the next level? We are seeking a dynamic Contractor for a 6-12 month engagement to serve as the onsite technical lead for tooling engineering services. This is your chance to make a significant impact by providing day-to-day customer engagement, technical leadership, and governance while driving continuous improvement. \n As the focal point between customer engineering teams, manufacturing, suppliers, and the wider SES tooling team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring efficient delivery of tooling support activities. This position is 100% onsite at our Pitstone, UK location. Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role, now or in the future. There is potential for this role to transition from temporary to permanent in 2027/28. Your Responsibilities\n\n • Customer Leadership:\n \n, • Act as the primary onsite representative for tooling engineering activities.\n, • Build trusted relationships with customer engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams.\n, • Lead technical discussions and prioritization meetings.\n, • Provide regular status updates and performance reporting.\n, • Manage escalations and drive timely resolution.\n \n, • Tooling Engineering:\n \n, • Lead design, modification, and maintenance of production tooling.\n, • Support NPI, industrialization, and production programs.\n, • Review technical solutions and provide engineering approval where required.\n, • Drive standardization and best practices across tooling activities.\n, • Support root-cause investigations and corrective actions.\n \n, • Team Leadership:\n \n, • Coordinate activities across onsite and offshore engineering teams.\n, • Mentor junior engineers and develop capability within the team.\n, • Define workload priorities and resource requirements.\n, • Promote engineering excellence and knowledge sharing.\n \n, • Continuous Improvement:\n \n, • Identify tooling cost reduction opportunities.\n, • Improve lead times and responsiveness.\n, • Implement standard work and governance processes.\n, • Develop reusable tooling solutions.\n, • Create and maintain a lessons learned database.\n \n, • Centre of Excellence Development:\n \n, • Establish tooling design standards.\n, • Create engineering knowledge repositories.\n, • Develop customer roadmaps for tooling innovation.\n, • Introduce digital tooling and data-driven improvements.\n, • Support capability growth across multiple programs.\n \nWhat We’re Looking For\n\n, • Aerospace/Manufacturing Experience:\n \n, • 5-8 years of tooling engineering experience.\n, • Aerospace, automotive, or complex manufacturing background.\n, • Experience supporting production environments.\n \n, • Technical Skills:\n \n, • Tooling design and development.\n, • Manufacturing engineering.\n, • CAD experience.\n, • Problem solving and root cause analysis.\n, • Configuration and change management.\n \n, • Leadership:\n \n, • Experience leading technical teams.\n, • Customer-facing experience.\n, • Stakeholder management.\n, • Ability to influence without direct authority.\n \n, • Mobility:\n \n, • Able to work full-time onsite.\n, • Eligible to work in the UK.\n, • Able to travel occasionally between customer and SES or supplier sites.\n \nWhy Join Us?\n\n, • Flexible Hours: Enjoy an early finish on Fridays!\n, • Onsite Canteen: Convenient dining options right at your workplace.\n\n If you're passionate about tooling engineering and ready to lead a talented team, we want to hear from you! Join us in shaping the future of engineering excellence.