Lead Tooling Engineer - Customer Operations & CI - Contractor Inside IR35 6-12m

We are looking to take on a Contractor for 6-12m to act as the onsite technical lead for tooling engineering services, providing day-to-day customer engagement, technical leadership, governance and continuous improvement whilst coordinating offshore and remote resources to ensure efficient delivery of tooling support activities.

The role will become the focal point between customer engineering teams, manufacturing, suppliers and the wider SES tooling team.

The role is 100% based onsite at Pitstone UK. No sponsorship will be offered for this role, now or in the future. The role could become temp to perm during 2027/28

Customer Leadership

• Act as primary onsite representative for tooling engineering activities.
• Build trusted relationships with customer engineering, manufacturing and operations teams.
• Lead technical discussions and prioritisation meetings.
• Provide regular status updates and performance reporting.
• Manage escalations and drive timely resolution.

Tooling Engineering

• Lead design, modification and maintenance of production tooling.
• Support NPI, industrialisation and production programmes.
• Review technical solutions and provide engineering approval where required.
• Drive standardisation and best practice across tooling activities.
• Support root-cause investigations and corrective actions.

Team Leadership

• Coordinate a