Development Engineer Blind Fastening Aerospace (m/f/d)

Come build your career. 

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 54,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

The Job:
This role is a key technical function to build up a new product line in Aerospace. The role includes the responsibilities for the product design and manufacturing tooling and process design.

The technical role focuses on delivering new product developments to scheduled timelines and budget.   

What You’ll Do:

• Development of blind fasteners for Aerospace. Responsible for the new products and product improvement engineering, ensuring continuing development of quality fasteners meeting technical requirements within cost and time targets while meeting the development process requirements for Aerospace.
• Development of new Fastener designs in parallel process development with tooling design in order to ensure the most cost-effective solution within short development cycle.
• Responsible for engineering related documentation, e.g. 3D/2D design, surface finishing, DVP&R, DFMEA, test work instructions according to the Aerospace standards.
• Supports/updates a lean product development process based on milestones (MS) covering internal or external requirements in Aerospace with the target to increase customer satisfaction and drive down time-to-market. Recommends new policies or procedures as necessary.
• Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality and Sales to formulate, implement and execute world-class product development strategies.
• Demonstrate and develop a collaborative cross-functional approach to drive applications and new product development.
• Support and promote innovative product creation resulting in patent generation.
• Leverage /drive virtual/modern development tools like Finite Element Method Simulation (FEM), Design of Experiments (DoE). Drive best practice implementation.
• Work with outside suppliers for raw material, plating and heat treatment of metal fasteners.
• Work with customers /suppliers / research institutions in order to ensure that the latest research is known and leveraged to ensure maximum technical differentiation of our new Fastener developments.

Qualifications:

• Master’s/Diploma degree in aerospace, mechanical engineering or similar.
• Design experience of new products based on cold-forming or warm-forming.
• Professional experience in Aerospace design standards beneficial.
• Proven track record of successful world-class product development in the same or similar industry involving moderate volume production and custom-engineered products.  
• Self-starter mentality and easy to work with.
• Strong intrinsic focus getting things done and customer focus.
• Lessons learned and root cause analysis, structured way of working.
• Experience and familiarity with and significant exposure to contemporary tools of product development: 3D CAD, CAE, 3D printing, 9100, 16949 (DFMEA, DVP&R, Team Feasibility), DFMEA and Six Sigma Quality philosophy.
• VA/VE and continuous improvement – participating in cross functional productivity projects.
• Experience with problem-solving techniques and strong methodological skills.
• Convincing communication with customers and colleagues.
• Good English speaking and writing skills, Fluent in German.

We offer:

• An exciting role in an innovative and international environment
• A wide range of development opportunities tailored to your individual needs
• An attractive remuneration package
• A permanent position
• 30 days of vacation
• Flexible working time models & mobile working

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are 

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire. 

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development: 
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.