Tooling Analyst

Cyient • Middletown, CT

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About The Position

The Tooling Analyst inspects tooling to ensure quality, functionality, and compliance with specifications, using blueprints as needed. The role manages tooling inventory records in SAP, including usage, maintenance, and disposition, and collaborates with supply chain to forecast needs, procure tools, and manage vendor relationships. The analyst develops strategies to reduce downtime and operational costs, communicates tooling requirements and issues across engineering, production, and procurement, and guides best practices for tool handling and storage. The position may involve people-management responsibilities within a small team or project and includes identifying opportunities to improve tooling acquisition, storage, and maintenance processes.

The role also develops production plans and schedules to make effective use of organizational resources while meeting production specifications, schedules, volume, cost, wastage, and quality targets. It uses engineering plans, contracts, and production specifications to estimate the labor, tools, and equipment required. The analyst monitors production activity and data to time material flow, adjusts schedules for backlogs, design changes, or material and labor shortages, prepares production work orders or purchase requests, and evaluates production specifications and plant capacity to determine manufacturing processes and calculate machine and operator loads.

Responsibilities

• Inspect tools thoroughly for quality, functionality, and adherence to specifications, using blueprints as necessary.
• Maintain accurate tooling inventory records in SAP, including usage, maintenance, and disposition.
• Coordinate tooling forecasts, procurement, and vendor relationships with the supply chain team.
• Develop tooling management strategies to minimize downtime and optimize operational costs.
• Communicate tooling requirements and issues with engineering, production, and procurement teams.
• Provide guidance on best practices for tool handling and storage; potentially lead a small team or project.
• Identify improvements to tooling acquisition, storage, and maintenance processes.
• Develop production plans that meet production specifications, schedules, volume, cost, wastage, and quality targets.
• Use engineering plans, contracts, and production specifications to prepare schedules and plans and estimate required labor, tools, and equipment.
• Monitor production activity and analyze data to time material flow to production requirements.
• Adjust schedules for backlogs, design changes, and material or labor shortages.
• Prepare production work orders or purchase requests based on production schedules.
• Evaluate production specifications and plant capacity data to determine manufacturing processes and calculate machine and operator loads.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed