Sr. Tooling Manager

Flex•Buffalo Grove, IL

1d•$146,700 - $201,700

About The Position

Responsible for managing the Tool Room department and collaborate on projects with customers or internal colleagues, new tool and mold development, improvement of manufacturing processes, and maintenance of production molds. Assure product quality by implementing testing methods, equipment, and tools.

Requirements

High School Diploma
15 years of experience in mold tool room or design activities
CNC tool room machinery programing
Ability to read mold design and improvements
Ability to apply common sense and to analyze and solve tooling problems
Ability to deal with customers and to lead a group.
Ability to speak and write in English.
Mold Making, Quality systems, FAI, PPAP process, releasing process.
Demonstrates expert functional, technical and people and/or process management skills as well as customer (external and internal) relationship skills.
Demonstrates detailed expertise in very complex functional/technical area or broad breadth of knowledge in multiple areas.
Understands the strategic impact of the function across sites.

Responsibilities

Management of new tooling requisitions from prototype or complex designs through mass production.
Responsible for improvements, major repairs, and Engineering Change Notice to the molds.
Implementation of preventive maintenance for production molds.
Develop manufacturing processes by studying product requirements including but not limited to researching, designing, modifying, testing manufacturing methods and equipment.
Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing tooling and process.
Implementation of quality and safety improvements in training for tool room team.
Generation and implementation of cost reduction ideas.