The Role
Design and validate precision manual, hydraulic, and pneumatic fixtures for 3-axis, 4-axis, and 5-axis CNC machining. Responsibilities include producing GD&T drawings, performing tolerance stack-ups and 3D collision checks, supporting process sheets, managing budgets, and tracking materials and tooling components. The role collaborates with production, process engineering, and CNC programming teams to ensure structural rigidity, repeatability, tool clearance, and on-time fixture fabrication.
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Fixture Designer
Summary
We are currently recruiting a skilled and meticulous Fixture Designer possessing 2 to 6 years of specialized experience in CNC manufacturing work-holding solutions. This position entails overseeing the complete lifecycle of high-precision clamping systems and fixtures designed for 3-axis, 4-axis, and 5-axis CNC machining environments. The core mission involves guaranteeing structural stability, ensuring exceptional part consistency, optimizing cutting tool clearance, and preventing collisions within complex multi-axis configurations. The successful candidate will lead the fixture development process from initial budgeting and cross-functional design reviews through to final blueprint issuance, process sheet support, and material procurement tracking.
Responsibilities
- Custom Fixture Engineering: Develop specialized manual, hydraulic, and pneumatic fixtures for 3-axis, 4-axis (including HMC tombstones and rotary setups), and 5-axis simultaneous machining operations to meet rigorous production targets.
- Collaborative Design Reviews: Lead and participate in comprehensive design review sessions to present structural strategies, coordinate with production teams, incorporate feedback, and obtain necessary technical sign-offs prior to tooling fabrication.
- Technical Documentation: Generate and finalize fixture models and detailed 2D engineering drawings, applying Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance (GD&T) standards per ASME Y14.5 and conducting tolerance stack-up analyses to ensure repeatable alignment within micron-level specifications.
- Process Engineering Support: Partner with production and process engineering departments to draft, evaluate, and refine manufacturing process sheets, ensuring tooling capabilities align seamlessly with operational workflows.
- Financial Oversight: Estimate, track, and control the engineering and material budgets for fixture projects, ensuring all hardware, fabrication costs, and custom components remain within established financial constraints.
- Supply Chain Coordination: Monitor the procurement lifecycle, delivery schedules, and lead times for raw materials, standard tooling accessories (such as zero-point grids, swing clamps, and locating elements), and commercial parts to ensure timely availability for production schedules.
- Interference Analysis: Perform thorough 3D kinematic simulations within native CAD environments to identify and eliminate potential collisions between fixture components, workpiece blanks, tool assemblies, and machine spindle paths during multi-axis rotational movements.
Requirements
- Educational Background: A Technical Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering, Tool & Die Design, or a comparable technical manufacturing discipline.
- Professional Experience: 2 to 6 years of focused experience specifically in designing and modeling CNC metalworking fixtures. Candidates with backgrounds in generic sheet metal, automotive body-in-white (BIW), or aesthetic product design will not be considered.
- Software Proficiency: Advanced expertise in 3D modeling platforms (e.g., SolidWorks) and associated 2D manufacturing drafting suites.
- Machine Knowledge: In-depth understanding of Horizontal Machining Center (HMC) pallet interfaces, 4th-axis rotary alignment, 5-axis tilt-table limits, and associated structural load dynamics.
- Material Science: Strong judgment in selecting fixture materials (such as Cast Iron grades and Tool Steels) and determining appropriate heat treatment processes like case hardening, nitriding, or stress-relieving.
Preferred Technical Additions
- Experience collaborating with CNC programming teams using CAM simulation software (such as Mastercam, NX CAM, or Vericut) to validate models.
- Familiarity with the design of pneumatic or hydraulic manifold pressure valve layouts.
Benefits
Mediclaim Insurance
Subsidized Food
Transportation facility
Skills Required
- Technical Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering, Tool and Die Design, or an equivalent technical manufacturing specialization
- 3 to 4 years of dedicated experience designing and modeling CNC metalworking fixtures
- Expert competency with advanced 3D modeling systems such as SolidWorks and corresponding 2D manufacturing layout software
- Comprehensive understanding of HMC pallet receiver alignments, 4th-axis rotary centerlines, and 5-axis tilt-table pivot limits
- Knowledge of fixture raw materials, including cast iron and tool steels, and mechanical hardening processes such as case hardening, nitriding, and stress relieving
- Experience with CAM or dry-run simulation packages such as Mastercam, NX CAM, or Vericut
- Familiarity with pneumatic or hydraulic manifold pressure valve layout design
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The Company
What We Do
UCAM Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian industrial manufacturing company specializing in high-precision CNC rotary tables, CNC tilting tables, and related automation solutions. The company provides complex indexing and machining solutions for precision engineering applications, supporting four- and five-axis machining. Its products and services serve machine builders and manufacturers requiring advanced tooling, rotary positioning, and high-accuracy machining capabilities.
