Tooling Supervisor

Adient plc; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Adient plc in Battle Creek, MI is seeking a Tooling Supervisor to oversee Tool and Die Makers and Trainees, coordinate tooling activities, and help train trainees. This role requires strong leadership and hands-on tooling knowledge in a metals plant.

You will drive tool design input for reliability, quality and safety, manage tooling personnel, liaise with vendors, and ensure tooling projects meet schedule and production goals. Familiarity with BOS/ISO/industry standards is preferred.

Qualifications

• Previous experience supervising skilled trades.
• Experience training employees in the tool and die trade.
• Pervious experience working as a tool and die maker in a metals plant.
• Experience in progressive and transfer dies.
• Solid leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily tooling issues communication and prioritization to maximize productivity.
• Manage tooling personnel in all tooling activities.
• Participate in tool design to improve reliability, quality and safety.

Skills

Supervising skilled trades

Training employees in tool & die

Tool & Die experience in metals plant

Experience in progressive & transfer)

Leadership skills

Education

Journeyman Tool and Die Card

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION Summary

The Tooling Supervisor supervises and coordinates activities of Tool and Die Makers and Trainees. The Tooling Supervisor also helps to train Tool and Die Trainees.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for daily communication of tooling issues as well as prioritization of such issues to maximize press room productivity and machine utilization.
• Manage tooling personal in all required tooling activities
• Actively participate in tool design to obtain reliability, quality and safety and further maintain competent sources for design and fabrication of tools and machines
• Actively applies new manufacturing technologies and aggressively evaluates and reports on manufacturing opportunities
• Participates in product design activities to assume optimum productivity and costs. Suggests alternative designs, materials or processes.
• Must be capable of resolving all problems while maintaining good rapport with customers
• Recommends changes for the most practical and economical manufacturing processes, including material, labor, tooling and equipment
• Participates in selecting approving and developing tooling and equipment to satisfy manufacturing requirements and product design intent
• Serves as customer liaison as relates to tool design and engineering matters
• Ensures that all relevant new tooling is capable of making required product to meet all timing and production goals.
• Works with tool vendors to insure all open insures as they relate to tool performance or tool adherence to active build standards are closed in a timely manner
• Liaison to tool and equipment manufacturers, contractors and tool and die job shops.
• Engaged in tool build projects.
• Reviews tool build progress, engineering level of product and promotes effort to meet or improve build schedule Upton receipt of tooling authorization, initiates and supervises tooling changes to satisfy requirements of engineering change
• Actively pursues quality improvements in the stamping process
• Works closely with Advance Manufacturing Group in Plymouth to provide direction to ensure plants are pursuing latest technological advances
• Perform other duties as required
• Complete all required and applicable training required by Adient and its customers
• Comply with BOS, ISO/TS-16949 and Customer Specific Requirements.
• Reference the BOS Responsibilities Matrix for all requirements related to this job title
• This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee.
• The employee is expected to perform other duties necessary for the effective operation of the department.

Education / Experience / Skills

Journeyman Tool and Die Card through the Department of Labor Accountabilities This position reports directly to the Press Room Manager

Qualifications

• Previous experience supervising skilled trades
• Experience training employees in the tool and die trade
• Pervious experience working as a tool and die maker in a metals plant
• Experience in progressive and transfer dies
• Solid leadership skills

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Must be able to meet the requirements of being able to work in the United States (INS Form I-9).

EHS Requirements

• Adhere to all Health, Safety and Environmental Standards
• Report occupational injuries, illnesses and accidents
• Report hazardous, unsafe and unhealthy conditions

Must be willing to work 2nd shift hours (3pm - 12am) plus overtime as needed

PRIMARY LOCATION

Battle Creek Seating Component Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With more than 65,000 employees in 29 countries, Adient operates ~200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. We take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year. For more information, please visit www.adient.com.