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!