Senior CNC Tooling Engineer

- Own our CNC tool database - tool records, assemblies, holders, offsets, cutting data, and standard libraries.

- Standardize tooling across machines, CAM platforms, and cells to cut variation and boost repeatability.

- Build tool assemblies and define standards for holders, shrink-fit systems, gauge length, runout, balance, stick-out, and coolant delivery.

- Optimize tool selection to balance tool life, cycle time, surface finish, cost, and reliability.

- Connect tooling data across CAM, presetters, machine controls, smart cabinets, and production docs.

- Manage inventory through vending/smart cabinet systems - min/max levels, reorder points, consumption tracking.

- Analyze wear, failure modes, and usage to extend tool life and drive down cost per part.

- Lead root-cause analysis on chatter, poor finish, premature wear, breakage, and dimensional drift.

- Drive RFID/barcode tool-ID systems and create the work instructions and training that keep practices consistent across shifts.

- 5+ years hands-on experience in CNC machining, tooling selection, manufacturing engineering, or tool crib management.

- Deep knowledge of cutting tools, toolholding, inserts, coatings, geometries, feeds/speeds, and material-specific strategies.

- Experience standardizing tooling for milling, turning, drilling, boring, threading, and finishing.

- Working knowledge of CAM systems, tool libraries, and CNC production workflows.

- A data-driven mindset and strong documentation discipline - you build standards people actually follow.

- High ownership and urgency in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

- Digital tool management platforms or integrated CAM tool libraries.

- Vericut, NCSIMUL, Mastercam, Fusion, NX CAM, ESPRIT, or Hypermill.

- RFID/serialized tool tracking; tool life management and cost dashboards.

- Machining experience in aerospace, defense, propulsion, or UAV hardware.

- High-mix, low-volume environments scaling into higher-rate production.