Senior Metal Tooling Engineer

Senior Metal Tooling Engineer

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work.

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We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here.

We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs.

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If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you.

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Job Description:

Job Family Definition:

Leads sheet metal tooling engineering activities supporting the development, validation, launch, and continuous improvement of stage tools, progressive dies, and soft tool metal fabrication for sheet metal components used in enterprise server, storage, networking, rail kits, and rack products.

Job Level Definition:

Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex business issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert who provides technical leadership to functional and technical program teams.

Serves as a technical authority for metal forming processes, tooling strategy, manufacturability, supplier qualification, supplier process capability, materials science, tool cost modeling, supplier negotiations, and sustainability to global program teams.

Description:

Responsibilities:


* Leads sheet metal tooling process strategy, design, and build activities for new product introductions and sustaining programs from concept to end of service.


* Evaluates and reviews manufacturability of complex sheet metal designs during concept, development, and production phases.

Conducts Design for Manufacturability (DFM) reviews with product design teams and manufacturing engineering partners to ensure tooling feasibility and process capability.


* Reviews and validates through all stages of design.

Reviews and validates prototype tooling, stage tool, and progressive die process plans and die designs.

Reviews and approves tooling qualification activities.


* Resolves tooling, dimensional, cosmetic, and process-related manufacturing issues through structured root cause analysis with corrective and preventative action plans.


* Drives continuous improvement: Improves yield, repeatability, process stability, and dimensional performance across global manufacturing operations.

Identifies cost reduction opportunities through process optimization, tooling standardization, and manufacturing efficiency improvements.

Coordinates tooling modifications, engineering changes, and other continuous improvement initiatives.


* Leads negotiations for ne...