ASCO, part of the Swiss group Montana Aerospace, began operations as a private subcontractor in 1954. Today ASCO Group is engaged in a broad range of development, engineering, manufacturing and assembly activities providing multidisciplinary subcontracting services to various markets and aerospace programs around the world.

Asco operates from several locations, Belgium, Canada, Germany and USA, with a turnover exceeding 300 million euros.

Asco produces over 2,500 assemblies every month and has the ambition to be a world leader in design and manufacture of high lift devices, complex mechanical assemblies and major functional components for the aerospace industry.

Montana Aerospace AG is a highly-vertically integrated manufacturer and supplier of system components and complex assemblies for the aerospace, e-mobility and energy sectors with worldwide engineering and manufacturing operations has acquired 100% of the share of the Asco Group beginning of April 2022.

For our Belgian plant we are looking for a Technical Advisor Machining and Fixture Design

Job Description :

The Technical Advisor will study, test, configure, implement and document (via best practices, guidelines or procedures) technical tools and processes related to the machining and fixture design activities. He/she will work on improvement of business processes related to the machining and fixture design activities. He/she will also coach and train the users inside the company. Additionally, when there is a need within the ME teams, the technical advisor may spend some of his time doing engineering work within a project team within his/her field of expertise. 

Accountabilities :

1. Continuous Improvement

Proactively develop, improve, test, configure, implement and document solutions and tools in his/her fields of expertise to make the users more efficient and/or anticipate the new demand from their customers.

• Follow up new developments on the market, request and attend trainings as required, attend forums as required.
• Analyse request of improvements made by the users.
• Be in contact with suppliers for specific improvement projects.
• Work on standardization of our equipment.
• Support in R&D projects.
• Pro-actively make suggestion of improvements to the N+1.

2. User Support

Coach and train the users by acting as focal point for technical issues with the solutions in Machining / Fixture Design and by providing associated procedures.

• Coach/Train on-site and offshore personnel to the new features.
• Actively help users in resolution of problems with solutions in his fields of expertise.
• Update/Create procedures as required.
• Create standard documents to capitalize technical experience.

3. Departmental & company support

When requested, the technical advisor will be part of project team as Manufacturing Engineer within his/her field of expertise.

He/she also actively helps other departments/plants in order to share best practices across ASCO group.

• Be the focal point for other departments/sites when knowledge in his/her fields of expertise is necessary.
• Actively help the organisation on technical knowledge in his/her fields of expertise in case of new investments.
• Actively help Operations to resolve manufacturing and/or CNC machines problems (e.g. Quality Clinics, cross departmental meetings).
• Provide process definition and estimations to Bidding team in his/her fields of expertise (RC, NRC and investment when applicable).
• Actively help the CAPEX team to set and validate the requirements in his/her fields of expertise for a new investment.
• Be in contact with suppliers for specific improvement projects
• Take actively part of technical team on new or complex technologies projects in his/her fields of expertise (e.g. Engineering projects). His/her responsibilities are, in this case, the same as an engineer in his/her fields of expertise inside a project team.
• Be a first player in concurrent engineering

4. Represents the department

Represent technically the department at a customer or subcontractor, during visits and tests at supplier.

Profile :

Education : Master in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent by experience 

Languages : Is capable to communicate (speak, read and write) in French, Dutch and English.

Skills / Experience :

• At least 7 years of relevant experience in his/her field of expertise
• Strong knowledge industrial manufacturing: milling techniques, CNC machines controllers, kinematics and geometry
• Technical experience in cutting tools is required
• Knowledge of Industrial design on 3D and 2D drawings.
• Helicopter view and good knowledge on ME and Production processes
• Capable of self-learning, Eager to learn
• Interest in developing new methods and improving existing techniques
• Independent, proactive, and have an eye for detail and a structure way of working
• Strong structured analytical skills to think about solutions impact and risks
• Logical Thinking skills (Problem-solving, Critical thinking, Creativity, Reasoning)
• Good coaching/training skills of colleagues
• Management skills to lead a small technical team
• MS office experience required (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, SharePoint, …)
• General IT infrastructure knowledge
• General software programming skills is preferable (Visual Basic, MATLAB, …)
• Open to travel for short missions (1-2 weeks)
• Good Communication skills, Social, Team player, Analytical, Open, Reporting
• 3Dexperience, CATIA V5 and 3D Composer is required

Our Offer:

Asco offers a position in an innovative high-tech environment, using cutting-edge technologies, with a unique training policy and opportunities to develop yourself. Besides this we offer an interesting salary package with extralegal advantages.