tooling engineer

Tooling engineers design new tools for manufacturing equipment. They prepare tooling quotation requests. They estimate costs and delivery time, manage tooling construction follow-up and supervise the routine maintenance of tools. They also analyse data to determine the cause of major tooling difficulties and develop recommendations and action plans for solutions.

The most in-demand skills for this role include production processes, engineering principles, manufacturing processes, quality and cycle time optimisation, mathematics, technical drawings. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives tooling engineer a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.