Tooling Development Engineer

Colonial Group; Troy (MI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Health savings accounts

Life insurance

Disability

Retirement plan

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

RESRG Automotive in Troy, Michigan, is hiring a Tooling Development Engineer to lead the development, launch, and lifecycle management of production tooling across North America operations.

You will collaborate with Program Management, Plant Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, suppliers, and customers to meet safety, quality, cost, and timing targets from concept to production.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of injection tooling, manufacturing, or process engineering experience in automotive or high-volume manufacturing.
• Knowledge of GD&T, APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, control plans, and capability methods.
• Experience managing tooling suppliers, schedules, budgets, trials, and launches.
• Proficiency with CAD review tools and Microsoft Office; ability to interpret drawings, specifications, and production data.
• Ability to travel to RESRG facilities, customer locations, and suppliers as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead tooling concepts, specifications, design reviews, sourcing, build, tryout, approval, installation, and production launch.
• Develop and maintain tooling timing, budgets, open-issue lists, scoring assessments and recovery plans aligned with program milestones.
• Ensure tools achieve part quality, cycle time, capacity, ergonomics, safety, and preventive-maintenance targets.
• Review designs, simulations, layouts, tolerance schemes, and process assumptions; drive design-for-manufacturability improvements.
• Coordinate tool trials, capability studies, run-at-rate activities, PPAP support, and corrective actions with plants and suppliers.
• Troubleshoot tooling and process issues using structured problem-solving and data-driven root-cause analysis.
• Manage engineering changes, tool modifications, spare parts, documentation, asset records, and end-of-life strategies.
• Support supplier performance, tooling audits, cost reduction, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

CAD review tools

MS Office

Root-cause analysis

Tooling design

PPAP knowledge

Tools

CAD software

Job description

RESRG Automotive is seeking you to join our team as a Tooling Development Engineer in our Troy, Michigan facility!

At the interface of design, engineering and supply logistics, REHAU Automotive and SRG Global combine to form RESRG - a leading global supplier of coated exterior systems and components. With a combined track record of over 160 years across four continents and 22 production sites, RESRG's 10,000 skilled team members manufacture the latest exterior systems and components for the world's leading automotive manufacturers.

Your Job

You will be responsible for the technical development, launch, performance, and lifecycle management of production tooling used across RESRG North America Automotive operations. This role partners with Program Management, Plant Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, suppliers, and customers to ensure tooling meets safety, quality, cost, capacity, timing, and maintainability requirements from concept through production.

What You Will Do in Your Role

• Lead tooling concepts, specifications, design reviews, sourcing, build, tryout, approval, installation, and production launch.
• Develop and maintain tooling timing, budgets, open-issue lists, scoring assessments and recovery plans aligned with program milestones.
• Ensure tools achieve part quality, cycle time, capacity, ergonomics, safety, and preventive-maintenance targets.
• Review designs, simulations, layouts, tolerance schemes, and process assumptions; drive design-for-manufacturability improvements.
• Coordinate tool trials, capability studies, run-at-rate activities, PPAP support, and corrective actions with plants and suppliers.
• Troubleshoot tooling and process issues using structured problem-solving and data-driven root-cause analysis.
• Manage engineering changes, tool modifications, spare parts, documentation, asset records, and end-of-life strategies.
• Support supplier performance, tooling audits, cost reduction, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Five or more years of injection tooling, manufacturing, or process engineering experience in automotive or high-volume manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of tooling design, manufacturing processes, GD&T, tolerance analysis, APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, control plans, and capability methods.
• Experience managing tooling suppliers, schedules, budgets, technical reviews, trials, and launches.
• Proficiency with CAD review tools and Microsoft Office; ability to interpret drawings, specifications, and production data.
• Ability to travel to RESRG facilities, customer locations, and suppliers as business needs require.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience and familiarity with gauges, assembly tooling, or other automotive production tooling.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria are set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.