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NPD Tooling Engineer
BURN ManufacturingJob description
BURN is currently seeking a mission-driven NPD Tooling Engineer for its modern clean cookstove manufacturing facility in Ruiru, Nairobi.
Roles and responsibilities
- Design, analysis, and cost of the required sheet metal soft and production tools.
- Work closely with the machinists to ensure successful machining and cutting operations for all the tool parts.
- Carry out tools building/assembly activities.
- Helping in managing the tooling workshop’s materials and hardware warehouse.
- Work closely with the New Product Development teams to ensure design for manufacturability.
- Carry out all assigned tasks in outsourced tools purchases and machining projects.
- Help in training tooling technicians and machinists on the best practices in sheet metal tooling design, machining, and building and maintenance activities.
- Participate in root cause analysis sessions for tools breakdowns.
- Help in achieving efficient utilization of the workshop’s machine tools.
- Ensure conformity with the company’s SOPs and help improve the tooling workshop procedures.
Desired Character
- Excellent problem identifier and solver.
- Hands-on and action-oriented.
- Excellent communicator that works well in a team.
- Detail-oriented and well organized.
Desired Profile
- 3 to 5 years of experience in developing and building sheet metal production tools.
- Experience in designing and building sheet metal Deep drawing, and forming tools is preferred.
- Excellent SolidWorks skills. Other 3D modeling software experience is a plus.
- Capable of using Logo-Press, Auto-Form, or any other tooling analysis software.
- Experience in working with EDM drilling, EDM wire cutting, and EDM spark erosion machines.
- Good understanding of cold working tooling materials and heat treatment of tool steels.
- Perfect understanding of hydraulic and mechanical forming and punching presses.
- Very Good understanding of machining and tools clearances, tolerances, allowances, and engineering drawings.
- Very good project management skills.
- Good understanding of CNC milling, turning operations, and conventional machine shop tools is a plus.
Qualified Female candidates are encouraged to apply
BURN does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training, or any other fees).
About BURN Manufacturing
Vision
Impacting lives and forests through efficient cooking appliances.
Corporate Overview
BURN Manufacturing designs, produces, and distributes Africa’s best-selling, fuel efficient biomass, electric, hybrid and liquid fuel cooking appliances. Not only do our products save money, fuel, and natural resources, but they also dramatically reduce harmful indoor smoke emissions which can cause significant health problems, even death.
With more than 1.2Millon+ stoves sold since commencing manufacturing operations in 2013, BURN has established itself as Africa’s most trusted cookstove brand thanks to our unwavering commitment to innovative research and design, manufacturing excellence, and customer care.
BURN is now the only vertically integrated modern cookstove company in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our solar-powered facility currently has a capacity of 45,000 stoves per month. We are proud to employ 400 team members throughout Kenya and East Africa, and support a workforce which is 50 percent female, thus empowering women in roles traditionally considered to be “for men only.”
Among our national and global honors, we have received the 2018 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneers Award for being among the world’s leaders in clean energy solutions, the 2018 Swiss Energy and Climate Summit Award for our pitch on the impact of clean-burning stoves, and the 2015 Ashden Green Energy International Award for empowering women with new economic opportunities.
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