The Tooling Strategy Manager will be based out of Whitehall, Michigan. Key objectives for this position include managing the overall tooling capacity versus customer demand, securing customer orders in a timely manner as needed to fulfill their end item casting demand, oversight of the manufacturing execution for these tools at our internal facilities as well as third party suppliers, and the internal and customer qualification requirements for these tools as necessary to release the tool for production. In fulfillment of these objectives, the Tooling Strategy Leader will be responsible for mentoring of salaried engineers providing technical guidance in tool design and design for manufacturability of castings; develop process standardization of the tooling processes, acting as a technical liaison to ensure customer requirements are met and relationships strengthened; developing project milestones and removal of barriers to ensure on time completion; utilizing continuous improvement methodologies to improve systems and manufacturing processes.