Tooling Engineer

1 day ago


Spennymoor UK, County Durham, United Kingdom Thorn Lighting Full time

The Zumtobel Group is an international lighting group and a leading supplier of innovative lighting solutions, lighting components and associated services. With its core brands, Zumtobel, Thorn and Tridonic, the Group offers its customers around the world a comprehensive portfolio of products and services.


We are recruiting within our Manufacturing Engineering department for a Press Tooling Engineer. This role will support New Product Development teams on Tooling matters for products from concept through to production. Key responsibility areas include APQP, PFMEA, DfM and Process Selection.


Main tasks of the role are:

  • Press Tooling design, development and commissioning.
  • Involvement with the Design teams and advising process capability, leading to component approvals.
  • Provide process estimates to validate optimised part cost structure.
  • Undertake Tool Buy off trials at both external suppliers and in-house acceptance (i.e. Initial Sample Inspection Reports, Capability Studies).
  • Creation and delivery of SOP’s and operator training.
  • Working with a wide variety of tooling types, materials, equipment and design processes.
  • Working with the internal and external toolmaking team to develop the correct tools to support design and production processes.
  • Working with a ranges of press related machinery, up to 200 Tonnes, press brakes and other related equipment.


We are looking for:

  • Previous press tooling engineer experience is essential for this role.
  • A good and well-rounded knowledge of tool types such as Pierce, Blanking, Box Forming, etc.
  • Familiarity with Material types, grades, thicknesses and finishes.
  • Qualified to a minimum HNC level in an engineering discipline.
  • Demonstrable experience of APQP, PFMEA and DfM.

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