Tooling Supervisor

**JOB DESCRIPTION** **Summary** The Tooling Supervisor supervises and coordinates activities of Tool and Die Makers and Trainees.  The Tooling Supervisor also helps to train Tool and Die Trainees. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities** * Responsible for daily communication of tooling issues as well as prioritization of such issues to maximize press room productivity and machine utilization. * Manage tooling personal in all required tooling activities * Actively participate in tool design to obtain reliability, quality and safety and further maintain competent sources for design and fabrication of tools and machines * Actively applies new manufacturing technologies and aggressively evaluates and reports on manufacturing opportunities * Participates in product design activities to assume optimum productivity and costs.  Suggests alternative designs, materials or processes.  * Must be capable of resolving all problems while maintaining good rapport with customers  * Recommends changes for the most practical and economical manufacturing processes, including material, labor, tooling and equipment * Participates in selecting approving and developing tooling and equipment to satisfy manufacturing requirements and product design intent Serves as customer liaison as relates to tool design and engineering matters * Ensures that all relevant new tooling is capable of making required product to meet all timing and production goals.  * Works with tool vendors to insure all open insures as they relate to tool performance or tool adherence to active build standards are closed in a timely manner * Liaison to tool and equipment manufacturers, contractors and tool and die job shops.  * Engaged in tool build projects.  * Reviews tool build progress, engineering level of product and promotes effort to meet or improve build schedule * Upton receipt of tooling authorization, initiates and supervises tooling changes to satisfy requirements of engineering change * Actively pursues quality improvements in the stamping process Works closely with Advance Manufacturing Group in Plymouth to provide direction to ensure plants are pursuing latest technological advances * Perform other duties as required Complete all required and applicable training required by Adient and its customers Comply with BOS, ISO/TS-16949 and Customer Specific Requirements.  * Reference the BOS Responsibilities Matrix for all requirements related to this job title * This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee.  * The employee is expected to perform other duties necessary for the effective operation of the department. **Education / Experience / Skills** Journeyman Tool and Die Card through the Department of Labor **Accountabilities** This position reports directly to the Press Room Manager **Qualifications** Previous experience supervising skilled trades Experience training employees in the tool and die trade Pervious experience working as a tool and die maker in a metals plant Experience in progressive and transfer dies Solid leadership skills **Certificates, Licenses, Registrations** Must be able to meet the requirements of being able to work in the United States (INS Form I-9). **EHS Requirements** Adhere to all Health, Safety and Environmental Standards Report occupational injuries, illnesses and accidents Report hazardous, unsafe and unhealthy conditions **Must be willing to work 2nd shift hours (**3pm - 12am**)** **plus overtime as needed** **PRIMARY LOCATION** Battle Creek Seating Component