Senior Tooling Designer
DAHERAbout the role
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Senior Tooling DesignerWho are we?
As an aircraft manufacturer, industrialist, industrial service provider and logistician, Daher currently has approximately 14,500 employees and achieved a revenue of 1.9 billion euros in 2025. With its family ownership, Daher has been focused on innovation since its creation in 1863. With locations in 15 countries across Europe, North America and Asia, Daher designs and develops value-added solutions for its aeronautical and industrial customers and partners
Kodiak Aircraft is seeking a highly capable Senior Tooling Designer to create practical, reliable tooling solutions that support stable, repeatable, and efficient aircraft production.
This role connects Tooling, Manufacturing Engineering, Production, Quality, Supply Chain, and suppliers. You will design fixtures, jigs, assembly aids, and tooling solutions that reflect real shop-floor needs and improve how aircraft are built.
This is more than a CAD design role. It is an opportunity to use hands-on manufacturing insight, production data, and strong tooling judgment to improve ergonomics, repeatability, flow, and quality in a low-rate aerospace production environment.
Why this role matters: the right tooling can reduce rework, improve ergonomics, increase repeatability, and help mechanics build aircraft more efficiently and consistently.
What Makes This Role Senior
Senior does not simply mean more years of tooling experience. We are looking for someone who can operate with independent judgment, bring practical ideas from prior roles, challenge tooling requests when needed, and help improve how tooling is designed, fabricated, validated, and maintained.
What You Will Do
- Work directly with mechanics, Manufacturing Engineers, and the Tooling Lead to understand real build constraints and high-impact tooling needs.
- Design tooling, fixtures, jigs, and assembly aids for structures, subassemblies, machining, fabrication, final assembly, and installation.
- Create detailed tool drawings that support manufacturing, assembly, maintenance, repair, and supplier fabrication.
- Ensure tooling designs are practical, robust, repeatable, ergonomic, maintainable, and realistic to fabricate with available resources.
- Use production data such as rework, cycle time, bottlenecks, and labor impact to support tooling prioritization recommendations.
- Validate tooling performance in production and improve or redesign tooling that does not add value.
What We Are Looking For
- 7-10+ years of experience in tooling design and fabrication within aerospace or complex manufacturing.
- Strong hands-on background in fabrication such as machining, welding, sheet metal, assembly tooling, or related processes.
- Deep understanding of fixture design, locator strategies, tolerance stack-up, repeatability, and assembly constraints.
- Proficiency in CAD; NX strongly preferred, with CATIA, SolidWorks, or equivalent platforms considered.
- Competence applying GD&T per ASME Y14.5 and familiarity with gaging and fixturing principles.
- Proven ability to design tooling that works on the floor and measurably improves production efficiency, ergonomics, and quality.
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