Tooling Engineer
Job ID - 6790BR
Chandler, AZ
Alcoa

Job Function Manufacturing / Operations
Business Unit Global Rolled Prod & Hard Alloy Ext
Job Status Full-Time
Relocation Eligible Negotiable
Minimum Education Required Bachelors
Minimum Years of Experience 7
Minimum Travel Required 0-25%

Alcoa, Inc. (www.alcoa.com) has an immediate opening for a Tooling Engineer at its Pimalco Operations in Chandler, AZ. Pimalco is a short press, hard alloy extrusions plant primarily focused on the Aerospace industry.

The Tooling Engineer will report to Engineering and is accountable for:
• Designing and developing cost effective and reliable equipment (i.e. dies, press tooling, stretcher, stretch form, gages, etc.) while monitoring and continuously improving tooling performance.
• The performance of tooling, including design dies and reviewing designs to optimize performance.
• Responding to customer and sales request for products, new product implementation, defining product manufacturing capability, determining tooling cost, and resolving customer quality issues.
• Contributing to updating technical standards and guidelines, initiating, monitoring, and updating repair and maintenance recommendations, equipment supply sources, and performance/cost date extrusion processes, equipment, and tooling.
• Knowledge sharing and providing technical counsel on extrusion and tooling technology and procedural direction to the Tool and Die Correctors.

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar field
• 7-10 years of tooling design experience
Preferred Qualifications • Leadership skills including communication, change management and team building
• Problem-solving and root cause analysis skills
• The ability to understand and apply state-of-the-art extrusion process knowledge and equipment technology.

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