This individual should bring:
- Strong design aptitude, with the ability to apply CAD/CAM skills to real-world manufacturing challenges and create value for both customers and the business.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including teamwork, constructive feedback, and project coordination.
- Confidence working cross-functionally with customers, sales teams, and manufacturing operations.
- Proficiency in Excel, ERP, and CRM systems to support quote development, tracking, and follow-up.
Core Qualifications
Strong knowledge of indexable tooling, (>5 years of experience), including:
- Turning
- Milling
- Drilling
- Grooving and Threading
Ability to interpret and evaluate:
- Part prints
- GD&T
- Material specifications
- Machine capabilities and process requirements
Understanding of key machining and cost drivers, including:
- Speeds and feeds.
- Tool life
- Cycle time
- Cost per part
- Insert grade and geometry selection.
Ideal Background
- Experience working for a cutting tool manufacturer, distributor, or machining company.
- Experience quoting both special tooling and standard indexable products.
- Familiarity with aerospace, medical, automotive, or general machining applications
- Ability to recommend tooling solutions based on workpiece material, setup rigidity, coolant application, machine horsepower, and production volume.
Key Responsibilities
- Review of RFQs, prints, and machining requirements
- Select appropriate indexable tooling solutions.
- Prepare accurate cost estimates and quotations.
- Support outside sales and customers with technical recommendations.
- Coordinate with engineering, production, and vendors regarding feasibility and lead times.
- Help improve quote win rate, margin performance, and response time.
- Design custom and indexable cutting tools, including complex geometries used in precision machining
- Own tooling designs from concept phase through production release
- Collaborate closely with sales, applications, and manufacturing teams
- Ensure designs meet performance, cost, and manufacturability targets
- Prepare detailed engineering documentation and CAD models for production
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or industrial engineering
- Experience designing indexable cutting tools (boring bars, inserts, form tools, or similar)
- Strong proficiency with SolidWorks and AutoCAD
- Understanding of metal cutting processes and machining applications
- Strong organizational, communication, and cross‑functional collaboration skills
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What We Do
American Manufacturing, Serving the World We are driven by precision. Our engineering expertise and precision-machining capabilities serve the medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets. We offer a synergy of resources to reduce your manufacturing costs, optimize the performance of your components and products, and cut your supply chain risks. ARCH has multiple state-of-the-art facilities that manufacture high-quality cutting tools, precision-machined components, and products. Working with ARCH, your business gains the advantage of an expanding range of cutting-edge resources for all your precision-machining needs. Our facilities are strategically located across the U.S. to optimize your outsourced precision-machining needs. We strive to be your trusted and proactive partner. ARCH is structured to provide the capacity, flexibility, and scalability you need to succeed. We offer design-for-manufacturability, prototyping, on-site application testing, program management, technical support, and customized services. The rise of American manufacturing requires the support of highly evolved and collaborative precision-machining partners. Our comprehensive experience in critical part production across a broad range of applications allows us to provide a dynamic range of solutions. We truly understand the critical nature of the components and products we work with and are intently focused on delivering exacting quality to our customers, and ultimately to their customers. We combine leading-edge expertise and industry standards to ensure consistent quality at every step. To maintain our leading edge, we invest in the continuous improvement of our manufacturing and quality assurance processes. The sharing of knowledge, technologies, and best practices across our teams strengthens our competitive advantage, accounting for performance breakthroughs, value creation, and cost containment.
