Mold Shop Manager

What you will do:

• Life cycle management & maintenance of proprietary and customer owned tooling.
• Lead the tooling team to include training, development, mentorship, ensuring accountability, day-to-day supervision, and motivation.
• Ensure the safe operation of the tooling shop.
• Ensure compliance to ISO 13485 quality management system and current Good Manufacturing Processes to enable delivery of quality products to the customer.
• Manage and schedule tooling preventative maintenance and repairs. Manage outside tooling vendors for major repairs. Quote tooling, approve scope of work, make sourcing decisions, audit suppliers, and track mold builds.
• Evaluate current tooling, forecast needed repairs and/or replacements of molds.
• Ensure preventative maintenance schedule is both established and followed with extreme attention to detail.
• Prepare reports & quotations for mold refurbishment or replacement for customer-owned tooling.
• Work closely with operations, maintenance, and process engineering to solve manufacturing issues and make improvements to cycle time, cavitation, and quality.
• Training and developing tooling technician direct reports.
• Create, modify, or improve tooling related procedures.
• Support mold builds and tool trials, including design for manufacturability.

Who we’re looking for:

• Associate Degree in a technical field, Journeyman Toolmaker Certificate, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Tool Room Manager, Tooling Engineer or Tooling Manager in a complex, high-cavitation environment.

• Prior experience managing mold repair or build projects with outside tool shops to control costs and deliver excellence, on-time.
• Prior experience and understanding of de-coupled injection molding and structured process development.

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• RJG or similar training.

Do you have?

• Knowledge of mold design, fabrication, development, testing, validation, and processing.
• Strong understanding of preventative maintenance and repair of molds, as well as a strong understanding of typical machining, Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM’s), etc.
• Familiarity with ISO 13485 and current Good Manufacturing Practice.
• High-energy, team-based management style with a positive personality.
• Attention to detail, ability to prioritize, maintain flexibility, high level of initiative.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings.

Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply today!