Job Description

As a family-run, high-tech company with nearly 19,000 employees at 71 locations worldwide, we are looking for forward thinkers with unconventional ideas and drive to join our team. Our company culture, which values collaboration and mutual trust, creates the ideal framework for boldly trying new things and questioning the status quo. Our technologies inspire people to develop and produce things that are currently unimaginable. Whether lasers, machine tools, EUV or electronics - TRUMPF is building technological worlds for future generations. Are you ready for new challenges?

Programmer/Fixture Design Engineer develop and design work piece holding devices and fixtures for our large Forest Line milling machines. This role combines mechanical engineering expertise with creative problem-solving to create fixtures that enhance productivity, precision, and safety across our product portfolio.

Duties & Responsibilities

Update existing and develop new fixtures, custom and modular, to fulfill machining requirements, address production challenges, improve efficiency and support new product introductions.

Develop fixture concepts that optimize machining processes, reduce cycle times, and improve part quality.

Collaborate with product development, CNC programming and machining team to ensure fixture designs meet all technical requirements. Conduct analysis and simulations in cooperation with CNC programming to validate fixture performance and safety.

Design and develop tooling and fixtures using SolidWorks, ensuring compatibility with existing tooling, products and machines.

Create detailed 2D drawings, following TRUMPF blueprint standards, incorporating GD&T principles. Create fixture BOMs, fixture assembly drawings for the manufacturing and assembly process of fixtures. Create fixture layouts for installation of fixtures on the machining tables and schematics for hydraulic fixture connections. Create 3D models of fixture components or fixture assemblies for production processes, CNC programmers and operators as needed.

Experience/Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent technical qualification
Minimum 5 years of professional experience in fixture design and work holding systems.
Proficiency in SolidWorks CAD software
Strong understanding of machining processes, particularly milling operations on large machine tools
Experience with GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing) principles
Knowledge of fixture manufacturing techniques and cost-effective production methods
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a technical team environment.

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