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Safran

Aircraft propulsion, equipment, and defense provider

Lead Tooling Engineer - Customer Operations & CI

Manufacturing EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
ContractPitstone, UKNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Five to eight years of tooling engineering experience.
  • Experience in aerospace, automotive, or complex manufacturing.
  • Experience supporting production environments.
  • Experience with tooling design and development.
  • Experience with manufacturing engineering.
  • CAD experience.
  • Problem-solving and root-cause analysis skills.
  • Configuration and change-management experience.
  • Experience leading technical teams.
  • Customer-facing experience.
  • Stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to influence without direct authority.
  • Ability to work full-time onsite.
  • Eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.
  • Ability to travel occasionally between customer, SES, or supplier sites.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the primary onsite representative for tooling engineering activities.
  • Build trusted relationships with customer engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams.
  • Lead technical discussions and prioritisation meetings.
  • Provide regular status updates and performance reporting.
  • Manage escalations and drive timely resolution.
  • Lead the design, modification, and maintenance of production tooling.
  • Support new product introduction, industrialisation, and production programmes.
  • Review technical solutions and provide engineering approval where required.
  • Drive standardisation and best practice across tooling activities.
  • Support root-cause investigations and corrective actions.
  • Coordinate activities across onsite and offshore engineering teams.
  • Mentor junior engineers and develop capability within the team.
  • Define workload priorities and resource requirements.
  • Promote engineering excellence and knowledge sharing.
  • Identify tooling cost-reduction opportunities.
  • Improve lead times and responsiveness.
  • Implement standard work and governance processes.
  • Develop reusable tooling solutions.
  • Create and maintain a lessons-learned database.
  • Establish tooling design standards.
  • Create engineering knowledge repositories.
  • Develop customer roadmaps for tooling innovation.
  • Introduce digital tooling and data-driven improvements.
  • Support capability growth across multiple programmes.

About the Company

Safran

Aircraft propulsion, equipment, and defense provider

Safran is a French high-technology group active in aircraft propulsion, equipment, and defense. It designs and manufactures jet engines and propulsion systems, landing gear, aircraft interiors, and provides electronics and avionics for aircraft and space launchers. It collaborates on major programs like CFM with GE and has grown through acquisitions such as Zodiac Aerospace to offer an integrated stack from propulsion to interiors. Its goal is to advance sustainable aviation by developing efficient engines and integrated systems for future aircraft.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2005

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