# Tooling Engineer, Aerospace

PPG's Aerospace Business is looking for a Tooling Engineer to join our team onsite in Huntsville, AL! As a Tooling Engineer, you will plan, organize, and manage multiple tooling projects of varying degrees of complexity to meet the tooling needs of the plant. You will support tool-up of new programs and work cross-departmentally with Program Managers, Engineers, and the tool shop. This is an onsite position in Huntsville, AL and reporting to the Tooling, Facilities, and Maintenance Manager. Key Responsibilities: Establish tooling requirements for programs, including cost estimates and schedules. Identify all resources (in-house and outsourced) necessary to support tooling fulfillment and schedule attainment. Coordinate with Project Managers, Design and Production Engineers to support all tooling aspects of ongoing/future projects and manufacturing process improvements. Collaborate with Tooling Shop to define all aspects of tool fabrication. Ensure that all materials and documentation needed for fabrication are ready at the start of projects. Manage the transition of legacy program documentation into digital format. Improve control and documentation methods using Solidworks PDM. Coo

- **Id**: 3847699
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ppg-tooling-engineer-aerospace>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Huntsville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T10:46:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5892
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Insurance coverage
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Aerospace Manufacturing, Chemical Manufacturing, Building Materials

## Company

- **Id**: 8313
- **Name**: PPG
- **Domain**: ppg.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ppg>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 105
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.867
- **Repost share**: 0.01
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 15
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **GD&T** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T01:24:57Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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