What you’ll do:

• Coordinates tool maintenance and repair with manufacturing departments to maximize production.
• Controls tool repair to minimize costs. Controls durable tooling account to provide quality tooling on a timely basis insuring the best utilization of company funds.
• Contracts with outside vendors for abnormal tool maintenance.
• Develops and controls budget for all plant tool maintenance and tooling departments. Forecasts tool room maintenance plan (personnel, equipment and space requirements).
• Assists manufacturing and engineering in method changes to promote cost reductions and productivity improvements. Participates in all tooling related cost reduction projects and capital appropriation requests.
• Works with engineering and quality assurance to assure product quality.
• Makes recommendations and maintains back-up tools for production departments.
• Maintains tool crib for tool room. Procures perishable tooling for tool room use, including indexable carbide tooling, wire e.d.m. supplies, structural and tool steels and other cutting tools used by the toolmakers.
• Directs efforts in in-house tool design. Advises and assists with new tool development, cost estimates and vendor selection. Provides tool cost estimates and completion dates for tooling on a timely basis within budgeted expenditures. Maintains relationships with vendors to assure quality tooling is supplied on schedule.
• Manages tooling departments, assuring efficiency through effective management practices. Supports, communicates and requires adherence to company policies. Assists in the hiring of tool room personnel. Evaluates new employees and oversees the training of new employees and trainees. Assists in training tool room personnel and engineers in programming for CNC equipment in the tool room.
• Manages the plant tool and die apprenticeship program and works with committee to assess apprentices' progress. Assures proper training plan and adherence to training requirements.
• Stays up to date with “state of the art” tooling and equipment.
• Designs moderately complex tooling. Maintains and updates existing tool designs.
• Creates and maintains tool records, tool design systems, change-over part records and spare part records. Furnishes information and blueprints to toolmakers and engineers.
• Ensures that safe practices are understood and practiced by all direct reports in the carrying out of their duties. Supports and requires adherence to all safety rules and policies.
• Ensures that new and existing tools and equipment adhere to all external and internal safety requirements and best practices, and that no unsafe conditions are created for end users. Requires and initiates and EHS review of all changes in process and/or equipment.

Qualifications:

• Certificate, Technical Degree, or Associates Degree from a qualified institution.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now and in the future.

• Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline.
• Minimum of three years’ experience in repair and maintenance of existing tools, dies, and fixtures.
• At least 1 year of working knowledge with CAD/CAM programs.
• At least 1 year of experience working with OSHA and EPA regulations as they apply to the functions supervised.

Skills;

• Strong knowledge of tool and machine design, equipment and electrical maintenance, spot welding, metallurgy, sheet metal fabrication and the use of CNC equipment.