Aerospace Fixturing and Tooling Process Engineer

What if you could turn every aerospace print into a stable, efficient machining plan

Through TekPro, a recruiting partner to advanced manufacturers, a well-established aerospace components company is seeking a process engineer who can design from the bench up. This is an on-site role joining forces with production, quality, and customer engineering to bring precision parts to life with repeatability and value.

Why this matters

Customers depend on reliable processes. Your mission is to interpret their requirements, create robust workholding and tooling, define the right operation sequence, and support the shop floor so quality, cost, and throughput are consistently met.

What success looks like

• ERP data that tells the truth: complete BOMs, accurate routings, and well-managed item masters
• New-part contracts translated into clear material choices, documentation, and flow-down requirements
• Prints, drawings, specifications, and requirements distilled into efficient machining strategies
• GD&T, in-process control plans, and work instructions that are unambiguous and usable
• Customer conversations that clarify intent and encourage design-for-manufacture improvements
• Production support that unblocks tooling, fixturing, and machining issues quickly
• Fixtures, workholding, and tooling designed or refined to serve both production and quality goals
• Process drawings and detailed work instructions that enable consistent execution
• Estimating inputs grounded in process steps, tolerances, and manufacturability considerations
• Internal, customer, and regulatory requirements flowed down effectively to suppliers and vendors
• Root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement that prevent recurrence
• Repeat jobs that run the same way every time through disciplined process control
• An orderly workstation and a reliable, positive work ethic others can count on
• A Quality Management System strengthened by compliant processes and practical improvements
• Productive collaboration across teams and with supplier partners

What you need to bring

• Mechanical Engineering degree or equivalent hands-on manufacturing process engineering experience
• Proficiency reading customer drawings, specifications, GD&T, and manufacturing documentation
• 4 or more years using CAD/CAM such as Mastercam, Unigraphics, or SolidWorks
• Ability to design workholding and fixturing and choose the right tooling
• Experience sequencing part processes to hit quality, cost, and throughput goals
• Strong troubleshooting of fixturing, tooling, machining strategies, and process flow
• At least 5 years in CNC machining or precision fabrication environments
• ERP familiarity and hands-on creation and upkeep of BOMs, routings, and item masters
• History of partnering with customers and cross-functional teams on technical issues

How you will work

On site, side by side with operators and quality, closing the loop from customer requirements to process documentation to shop-floor execution. You will be the technical backbone ensuring processes are designed right and run right.