Tool & Die MANAGER:  **SEND YOUR RESUME TODAY!

MANAGER, Tool & Die-Maker to oversee department and be hands-on to train, build, repair and maintain: dies, fixtures, and all other tooling in conformance to customer and/or company specifications per control plans.

POSITION SUMMARY

Person that is skilled in the area of building and maintaining tools and dies necessary in producing products. 
Person also sets up and operates machinery to assemble parts to make and repair metal working dies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

• Builds Dies – Work layout, machine and grind and fit details – thorough knowledge of tooling, machining processes, and die functions – distractions and interruptions to other jobs.

• Sharpens and repairs dies in tool room – Disassembles dies, inspects, welds, repairs, grinds, detail, fits detail into dies – same skill requirements as above, same distractions, and interruptions plus frustrations of machine shortage at times.

• Maintains dies – Analyzes problems, troubleshoots, repairs damaged details, sharpens, aligns, times dies – same skills as above plus knowledge and experience with presses, feed mechanisms, releases, timing, and die set-up.  

• Required knowledge of steels, stresses, and material.

• Have the ability to mentally picture position and shape of objects; predict position in space after movement.

• May be given certain authority within job scope by Manager

Education and/or Experience:

• High school diploma or G.E.D.   
• Requires use of advanced shop math and formulas. 
• Ability to work with complicated drawings and diagrams. 
• Over five years experience. 
• Tool and die repairing and building  dies.

Reasoning Ability:

Requires the use of high degree of judgement, initiative and ingenuity working independently to devise new methods, procedures, processes, layouts, equipment, designs, circuitry, etc. to accomplish very difficult problems. 
The developing of the details and constructing of very complicated tools and dies.

Other Skills and Abilities: 

• Intense and exacting mental and visual attention. 
• Develop intricate and complex details for complicated dies. 
• Responsible for own work. 
• This includes aiding in the training of new employees.

Physical Demands:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Light physical effort on the average, working with light, medium, and occasionally heavy materials.