Advanced Tooling Engineer

Challenge Manufacturing Holdings, Inc; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Challenge Manufacturing’s Advanced Tooling Engineer will support the launch team, ensuring tooling and gage specifications meet deadlines and quality requirements for 100% stampings. The role covers GD&T, tool design coordination, supplier engagement, and archival of tool CAD data throughout the project lifecycle.

Based in Walker, MI, this 1st shift position entails coordinating die tooling from quoting to production, maintaining schedules, and ensuring Challenge specifications are met for

Qualifications

• GDT creation and interpretation
• Coordinate tool design and build
• Review sample requirements and part layouts
• Maintain tooling project schedules and timelines
• Track weekly issues and ensure closure
• Verify part quality throughout program

Responsibilities

• Support creation of GD&T.
• Coordinate tool design, build and design reviews.
• Create SOWs and secure signed SOWs from suppliers.
• Track tooling and gage status from PO to release.
• Ensure die shop and gage shop timelines meet due dates.
• Attend open issues meetings and report die/gage status.

Skills

GD&T

Tooling coordination

Project scheduling

Quality assurance

Issue tracking

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Job description

Who We Are

Challenge Manufacturing’s mission is to manufacture with operational excellence by empowering our employee-owners. As a leading tier 1 supplier of complex metal assemblies for the global automotive industry, we drive innovative solutions for future mobility. We believe the best ideas come from individual unique perspectives. These ideas combined with the teamwork of industry leaders allow us to accomplish any challenge. Our team members take pride in the work we do and embody our core values of safety, ownership, and teamwork every day; they are the true driving force in our operations. Challenge is proud to be one of the largest employee-owned automotive companies in North America. One of the many benefits of joining the Challenge team is the ESOP program. This program allows Challenge to give shares of the Company to all employee-owners annually. These shares are an additional retirement benefit that will continue to grow during your time at Challenge. Being part of an ESOP means our employee-owners share in Challenge’s success! Challenge is #QualityDriven and #PeoplePowered!

Who We Want

The Advanced Tooling Engineer will work as a part of a launch team and will follow the die tooling and gages from the quoting phase to the production phase, ensuring that part specifications and deadlines are met for the successful buildup of assemblies and providing 100% quality stampings to our customers.

What You’ll Do

• Supports the creation of GD&T.
• Responsible for coordinating tool design, tool build, tool design reviews, sample requirements, reviewing part layouts, ordering try out steel, and archiving tool CAD data.
• Create SOWs and receives signed SOWs back from suppliers.
• Following Tooling and Component Gages from PO to home line buyoff and beyond.
• Approvals / Check sheets to be filled out prior to shipping (to die shop for gages, or in house for dies) to ensure Challenge specifications are met for tooling and gages.
• Supports pre-source meetings with selected Suppliers ensuring quotes are correct prior to release.
• Provide release level Data and GD&T to selected suppliers.
• Maintaining tooling project schedules by reviewing die shop and gage shop schedules / timelines to ensure due dates are met.
• Track weekly open issues and ensure open issue closure in a timely manner.
• Verify and report the part quality throughout the program for each build requirement (drive to nominal).
• Attend Weekly Open Issues Meetings to report Die and Gage Status (timing/change levels/part quality/part status for build events).

When and Where

This will be a 1st Shift, M-F position located at our corporate office/plant in Walker, MI.

What You Need to Have

• High School Diploma or GED (required).
• Minimum six years’ experience in Tool and Die Build/Design or Sheet Metal Stamping or equivalent education and experience (required).
• Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline (preferred).

Challenge Manufacturing’s mission is to manufacture with operational excellence by empowering our employee-owners. As a leading tier 1 supplier of complex metal assemblies for the global automotive industry, we drive innovative solutions for future mobility. We believe the best ideas come from individual unique perspectives. These ideas combined with the teamwork of industry leaders allow us to accomplish any challenge. Our team members take pride in the work we do and embody our core values of safety, ownership, and teamwork every day; they are the true driving force in our operations. Challenge is proud to be one of the largest employee-owned automotive companies in North America. One of the many benefits of joining the Challenge team is the ESOP program. This program allows Challenge to give shares of the Company to all employee-owners annually. These shares are an additional retirement benefit that will continue to grow during your time at Challenge. Being part of an ESOP means our employee-owners share in Challenge’s success! Challenge is #QualityDriven and #PeoplePowered! We’re excited to offer a range of awesome benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions, Flexible Spending Accounts, company-paid Short-Term Disability and Basic Life Insurance, Voluntary Life and Long-Term Disability options, an Employer 401k Match, ESOP shares, tuition reimbursement, a Referral Bonus Program, Challenge Incentive Program, and paid time off. Please note, while these benefits are part of what we offer, they may not all apply to this specific role. The details shared in this job description are intended to give you a general idea, but duties and responsibilities may evolve in time, with or without notice. And of course, we’re happy to provide reasonable accommodations to help individuals with disabilities succeed in their role.