Tooling Technician (Onsite)

Tooling Technician

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world's most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines and auxiliary power systems and has been revolutionizing modern flight for over 100 years. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

What You Will Do:

As a Tooling Technician, you will support the Mobile Repair Team (MRT) and engine repair station operations by ensuring tooling and support equipment remains safe, serviceable, and mission ready. You will inspect, maintain, troubleshoot, repair, and refurbish engine tooling, fixtures, adapters, lifting devices, gauges and other specialized support equipment used to support both field maintenance and repair station activities. You will support the complete tooling lifecycle by receiving, identifying, issuing, tracking, storing, packaging, and shipping serialized tooling while maintaining accurate records within company inventory and asset management systems. You will also support calibration activities by preparing tooling for calibration, processing returned tooling, identifying out-of-tolerance equipment, and assisting with the evaluation and disposition of nonconforming tooling.

This position works closely with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, and the Mobile Repair Team to ensure tooling is available when and where it is needed to support customer commitments. As repair station capabilities continue to expand, this role may also support advanced tooling inspection activities, including nondestructive testing (NDT), following successful completion of required training and qualifications. Success in this role requires strong mechanical aptitude, attention to detail, sound troubleshooting skills, and a commitment to safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced engine repair environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform inspections, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, refurbishment, and approved modifications on engine tooling and support equipment.
• Support the Mobile Repair Team and repair station by ensuring that tooling is available, serviceable, and ready for deployment.
• Receive, inspect, identify, issue, package, ship, receive, and store tooling while maintaining inventory accuracy and traceability. Support calibration activities, including preparation, receipt, processing, and documentation of calibrated tooling.
• Evaluate tooling for serviceability and identify tooling requiring repair, calibration, quarantine, or disposition.
• Maintain accurate documentation, serialized tooling records, and inventory transactions within company systems.
• Assist with investigations involving damaged, lost, or nonconforming tooling and support corrective actions.
• Maintain tooling storage areas in accordance with safety, quality, and repair station requirements.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance tooling reliability, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Tool kitting process to include organizing tooling by engine model, shadowing of toolboxes, creating inventory sheets.
• Provide feedback to supervisor for best workflow, implementation of CORE principles for tooling, and align with our 6S/CORE principles.
• Comply with all company, customer, regulatory, environmental, and safety requirements.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• High school diploma or AA/AS degree (or other 2-year post high school training) with a minimum of 6 years of mechanical, maintenance, tooling, manufacturing, or aerospace experience.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Prior experience in an aerospace engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) environment or Part 145 Repair Station.
• Prior experience with calibration processes and serialized tooling management.
• Prior experience performing repairs on specialized tooling or support equipment.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, technical manuals, work instructions, and service bulletins.
• FAA Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) Certificate
• Nondestructive Testing (NDT) certification or willingness to obtain qualifications.
• Prior experience with SAP or other ERP and inventory management systems.
• Understanding of quality management systems and continuous improvement principles.

Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. This position is classified as:

• Onsite : Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

The salary range for this role is 53,100 USD - 100,900 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, location, education/training, and key skills. Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company's performance. This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply. RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.