Tooling Supervisor

Century Mold Co.; Shelbyville, Northern (TN, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Century Mold Co. in Shelbyville, TN is seeking a Tooling Supervisor to lead toolmakers, apprentices, and specialists. You will coordinate production support, communicate status and goals, and ensure safety, quality, schedule, and cost targets are met.

This role requires 10–15 years in tool-making, strong leadership, and experience with quality systems. You will oversee timelines, timesheets, and daily tool room scheduling, while mentoring junior staff.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED with 10–15 years in tool‑making.
• Proven leadership of toolmakers and apprentices.
• Strong communication and scheduling to meet production goals.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a positive, professional work atmosphere with all staff.
• Adhere to Quality Management Systems procedures and requirements.
• Enforce safety rules and company policies.
• Maintain attendance and punctuality; enforce Attendance Policy.
• Supervise 2 toolmakers, apprentices, and specialists.
• Complete accurate time sheets for payroll.
• Update the tool room and build a daily schedule.
• Input all used hours per job in the tool room schedule.
• Review job builds with toolmakers to optimize timelines.
• Maintain all job track sheets.
• Maintain a C/A and a debug schedule.
• Conduct yearly reviews of supervised employees.
• Attend weekly engineering meetings to provide updates.
• Attend weekly staff meetings to discuss critical jobs.
• Attend DES review meetings.
• Mentor and train less experienced employees toward Master Toolmaker status.

Job description

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Full Time Regular Shelbyville, TN, US

30+ days ago Requisition ID: 1139

At Century Mold, we don't just mold parts, our customers come to us with their toughest challenges … and we mold solutions. The plastics industry is full of challenges and the Century Mold team prides themselves on their problem-solving capabilities. We strive to provide and deliver more not only for our customers but for our team as well.

Job Description:

The Tooling Supervisor responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, supporting production and other functions in a team-based environment. In this capacity the Supervisor will effectively communicate status, tooling goals and objectives, assess skill and complexity of tasks, issue work assignments, and establish expectations for task completion to meet scheduled performance goals. Ensure process integrity to include safety, quality, schedule & cost.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Must maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a professional manner by getting along with customers, clients, co-workers, supervisors, managers, and all other employees.
• Responsible for adhering to and maintaining all Quality Management Systems procedures and requirements related to the position.
• Must adhere to all safety rules and company policies, as well as enforce the compliance and implementation of each through subordinates.
• Attendance/punctuality: is consistently at work and on time; ensures that the Attendance Policy is enforced consistently through subordinates.
• Supervision of 2 toolmakers, apprentices, and specialists.
• Responsible for completion of accurate time sheets for payroll.
• Responsible for updating the tool room and building a schedule on a daily basis.
• Input of all used hours per job in the tool room schedule.
• Responsible for reviewing job builds with toolmakers when setting timelines in order to use the time most efficiently.
• Responsible for all job track sheets.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (continued)

• Responsible for maintaining a C/A schedule and debug schedule.
• Responsible for yearly reviews of all employees under your supervision.
• Must attend weekly engineering meetings to give updates on all active in house jobs.
• Must attend weekly staff meetings to give updates on critical jobs and tool room forecast.
• Must attend DES review meetings.
• Responsible for ensuring the less experienced employees in the department receive proper training to become Master Toolmakers.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); Minimum of 10-15 years of experience in the tool‑making field. Must have completed required coursework in the field.

Computer Skills:

Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite; Ability to learn new software as needed.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly list and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently and/or move up to 25 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.