Tooling Supervisor (Days)

Air Products; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation and holidays

Parental leave

Life Insurance

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Air Products is seeking a Tooling Supervisor for its St. Louis Membrane Solutions facility. You will lead a team of 6–10 tooling technicians across all shifts, ensure tooling readiness, and coordinate maintenance scheduling to support continuous spinning production.

The role emphasizes safety, quality and continuous improvement, with focus on winders, jets and pumps. Strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills are essential to drive reliability and productivity.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a tooling team in a manufacturing setting.
• Knowledge of spinning tooling systems and maintenance processes.

Responsibilities

• Direct a tooling team of 6–10 technicians and leads across all shifts.
• Coordinate preventative maintenance and tooling priorities.
• Ensure tooling readiness to support 24/7 spinning production and minimize downtime.
• Interface with operations, maintenance and engineering for tooling reliability improvements.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Troubleshooting

Safety awareness

Quality systems

Lean / CI

Mechanical aptitude

Data analysis

Tools

Winders

Jets

Pumps

Job description

At Air Products, we reimagine what's possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together - where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter - we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.

Reimagine What's Possible

The Tooling Supervisor has responsibility for all aspects of tooling support for spinning production operations at the St. Louis Membrane Solutions manufacturing facility

Our Membrane Solutions facility assembles, tests, and ships air separation modules ranging from 1" to 8" in diameter for Aerospace (OBIGGS), Nitrogen, Dehydration, and Process gas applications. Assembly is the final production step before product reaches the customer, and quality escapes carry direct customer, contractual, and safety consequences.

Our ideal candidate has excellent leadership abilities coupled with a mechanical aptitude, excellent organizational, planning, interpersonal, communication, and decision-making skills.

In this role you will direct a team of approximately 6-10 tooling technicians and working team leads across all shifts (Yellow/Blue day rotations and Nights), with accountabilities for safety, quality, tooling readiness, preventive maintenance, training, and employee development.

The primary function of the tooling team is to fully support spinning production by ensuring that all tooling required for spinning operations is maintained in a ready-state condition. This includes spinning tooling such as winders, jets, and pumps.

What's In It for You:

• Affordable Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (day 1 of employment)
• 401k with 100% vested company core and match
• Paid Vacation, holidays + sick time
• Paid Parental leave (Up to 4 weeks for both parents)
• Backup Child and Adult Care benefit
• Adoption assistance
• Flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent daycare)
• Life Insurance (AD&D- Paid for by Air Products), Supplemental AD&D
• Legal Plan & Identity theft coverage
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Many more supplemental benefits available

NATURE AND SCOPE

Production support function with site-wide spinning impact. Tooling is a support function for the spinning operations team; however, tooling readiness directly impacts spinning line uptime, changeover speed, and fiber quality across all spinning areas. When tooling is not in a ready-state condition, production stops.

24/7 shift coverage. The Tooling Supervisor manages tooling technicians across Yellow, Blue, and Night shifts to provide continuous tooling support to match the 24-hour spinning production cycle. The incumbent must coordinate work assignments, maintenance scheduling, and tooling priorities across all shifts.

Technical specialization. The role requires deep knowledge of spinning tooling systems (winders, jets, pumps) and the maintenance, calibration, and cleaning processes that keep them operational. The incumbent is responsible for sustaining a maintenance program, driving toward reliability excellence, aiding in tool design and process improvement, and developing quick-change options for production changeovers.

Cross-functional interface. The role requires interfacing with spinning operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to ensure tooling availability aligns with production schedules and priorities. The supervisor attends engineering and management meetings and provides necessary input and guidance on tooling readiness, reliability, and improvement opportunities.

Required Skills / Abilities:

• Excellent face-to-face and written communication skills (Candidate must communicate effectively with operators, maintenance personnel, technical support personnel, management, and all internal and external stakeholders)
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• A keen drive to improve operational execution and maintain high work standards.
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational abilities.
• A safety focus, with a full understanding of the applicability of Government EHS regulations and the Company's Global EHS policies and procedures to the facility and workers.
• Knowledge of quality systems and the requirements of ISO 9001-2015 and how they apply to production processes is preferred but is not required.
• A continuous improvement mindset with familiarity in Lean, Root Cause Analysis, and other CI tools is required.
• Strong mechanical aptitude with hands-on knowledge of tooling fabrication, maintenance, and calibration
• Comfortable analyzing, interpreting, and communicating data and trends