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Adient · 2 days ago

Tooling Supervisor

Battle Creek, MI

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

Adient is seeking a Tooling Supervisor who will supervise and coordinate the activities of Tool and Die Makers and Trainees. The role involves managing tooling personnel, participating in tool design, and ensuring productivity and quality in the manufacturing process.

Automotive

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Qualification

ToolDie supervisionTraining employeesDie makingManufacturing technologiesLeadership skills

Required

Journeyman Tool and Die Card through the Department of Labor

Previous experience supervising skilled trades

Experience training employees in the tool and die trade

Previous experience working as a tool and die maker in a metals plant

Experience in progressive and transfer dies

Solid leadership skills

Must be able to meet the requirements of being able to work in the United States (INS Form I-9)

Adhere to all Health, Safety and Environmental Standards

Report occupational injuries, illnesses and accidents

Report hazardous, unsafe and unhealthy conditions

Company

Adient

Glassdoor3.8

Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating.

Founded in 2016

Plymouth, Michigan, US

10001+ employees

https://www.adient.com

H1B Sponsorship

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