Job Summary
The tooling engineer designs, develops, and maintains the tools, dies, molds, and fixtures used in manufacturing processes and ensures these tools are efficient, reliable, and meet production requirements.
Responsibility
- Must support the die cast/trim and other services' effort to keep a continuous flow of high quality castings through the plant and to the customer by accurately providing and reporting the significant aspects of the visual, dimensional, and process information available.
- This position must promote a predictive, not reactive, maintenance philosophy by taking a proactive approach to preventative maintenance and quality.
- Promote plant wide safety and housekeeping, and follow established guidelines for visual management.
- Responsible for performance evaluation, disciplinary action, training and supervision of tooling department employees on all three shifts.
- Carries out supervisor responsibilities in the toolroom in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
- Responsible for interviewing potential candidates, and training employees, planning, assigning, and directing work, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems.
- Provides hands-on direction and support for production, machining, or support service departments in the resolution of problems.
- Evaluates department procedures and work instructions, revising if needed, to ensure high efficiency, effectiveness and utilization as well as employee safety.
- Manage housekeeping by maintain visual management to the established standards in all production areas.
- Monitor the construction, alteration, and repair of a variety of dies, tools, fixtures, cavities and gauges meeting accuracy requirements, determining techniques and making decisions on metals, allowances, mechanism detail, fit and assembly to achieve maximum die equipment assembly, fixturing, and cavity life with minimum down time while under manufacturing time constraints and pressures.
- Responsible for meeting the monthly budgets.
- Manage LPIR reviews.
- Responsible for determining the most efficient method of completing repairs of dies, tools, fixtures, cavities and gauges and responsible for scheduling PM's, routine service, and emergency repairs of tooling.
- Track and meet tooling budgets
- Responsible for contacting tooling vendors for repairs in a timely manner, and securing competitive quotes for repairs being performed.
- Responsible for tracking tool life and coordinating timely replacement to insure quality levels of customer products.
- Responsible for replacement cavity process.
- Other duties as assigned
Academic/Educational Requirements
- High School Diploma or Equivalency
- Associate’s degree or 1-2 yrs. related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.
Required Skills/Experience
- Broad background in manufacturing-working in tooling, die cast REQUIRED.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
- Ability to train others in routine procedures.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Working from complex blueprints, engineer or shift supervisor instructions, or repair orders, repairs tools, dies and fixtures, or having benefit of given nature of problem, shows the ability to analyze and evaluate what must be done to remedy the quality and production problems resulting from tools, dies and fixtures.
- Determines, designs, and implements preventive corrections or maintenance programs.
- Determines if repairs requested are appropriate/accurate; makes repairs to correct problems in a manner which will support production and not sacrifice quality.
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- Computer literate to read, write, and reply to e-mail.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical manuals, professional journals, technical procedures blueprints and layouts, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to fill out reports and log books. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, coworkers, and vendors concerning tooling or repairs.
- Ability to utilize computer Programs: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams, PLEX, and Paylocity.
Working Conditions
- The position requires the employee to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
- The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and bend, kneel, squat, or crawl.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 lbs.
- Vision abilities required by this job are the same as required for a driver’s license in the state in which the person lives, and will be demonstrated by maintaining that license.
- The employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts.
- The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and extreme heat.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
- Please note: All schedules and changes to working hours must be approved by the department manager. Schedule is subject to change based on discretion of department manager.
Facility Specific
Ensure compliance with all legislative requirements in the facility’s geographic location including but not limited to:
- ISO 45001: Health and Safety management system standard.
- ISO 14001: Environmental Management system standard.
- IATF 16949 Technical Specification Management and Linamar Quality Basics system standards.
Ensure compliance with Linamar’s internal operating system known as ‘GOS’: The Global Operating System Support, Foster, Promote and Demonstrate Linamar’s Core Values and Leadership Behaviors.
Maintain department 5S requirements.
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Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Will you now or in the future require employment visa sponsorship?
- Do you have previous experience working with aluminum die casting tooling? (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Pleasant Prairie, WI 53158 (Required)
Work Location: In person
