Tooling Setup Coordinator

Tooling Setup Coordinator

Are you a highly organized and mechanically skilled individual with a knack for precision? We're looking for a dedicated Tooling Setup Coordinator to join our team and play a critical role in maintaining our production efficiency. In this role, you'll be responsible for ensuring all production tooling is in excellent working order, coordinating its availability, and managing our tooling inventory. If you're proactive, detail-oriented, and enjoy a hands-on approach to problem-solving, we encourage you to apply!

-       4-day work week

What You'll Do (Primary Responsibilities)

Reporting to the Tool Room Manager, your main goal will be to keep all production tooling in optimal condition. This includes:

• Tooling Assembly: Ensure production has the tooling required when they need it.
• Tooling Maintenance & Repair: Performing preventative maintenance, cleaning, and minor repairs on production tooling.
• Inventory Management: Coordinating and maintaining a precise physical and electronic inventory of all stored tooling components and commonly used hardware supplies.
• Coordination & Scheduling: Collaborating closely with production and tool room scheduling to ensure timely tooling availability.
• Quality & Safety: Inspecting tooling for defects or damage, submitting requests for major repairs, and consistently adhering to all safety protocols and company policies.

Your Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Coordinate work duties effectively with production and tool room schedules.
• Skillfully assemble and disassemble both existing and new production tooling.
• Manage the physical storage of tooling and meticulously update electronic inventory records for all components.
• Proactively inspect tooling for defects, perform necessary preventative maintenance, clean, coordinate die sharpening, and execute minor repairs.
• Maintain accurate inventory levels for commonly used hardware items.
• Generate and submit formal requests for major tooling repairs or replacements to the tooling manager
• Strictly follow all safe work practices and wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) when operating powered hand tools and tool room machinery (e.g., vertical milling machines, drill presses, band saws).
• Utilize a variety of precision measuring devices (micrometers, calipers, tape measure) to verify the accuracy of your work.
• Set-up and produce prototype thermoform samples for customers when needed.
• Drill micro diameter vacuum holes in prototype and new tooling.
• Polish aluminum mold tooling to industry standards.
• Maintain an up-to-date forklift truck certification.
• Accurately complete and submit all required documentation, reports, and forms to the tooling department supervisor.
• Ensure your work area is consistently clean and organized, adhering to all cleaning and housekeeping procedures.
• Comply with all company worker safety, food safety policies, and work rules.

What You'll Bring (Job Specifications & Requirements)

• Experience & Skills:
• • Proven mechanical aptitude, including the ability to identify hardware sizes, bolt sizes, and thread sizes.
  • Proficiency in drilling and tapping operations.
  • Adept at safely operating a variety of powered and non-powered hand tools, as well as tool room machine tools such as vertical milling machines, drill presses, and band saws.
  • Skilled in using and interpreting precision measuring devices like micrometers, calipers, and tape measures
  • Basic computer skills, using Microsoft office suite including the ability to look up schedules, produce written reports, and enter data into spreadsheet programs.
  • Ability to apply common-sense understanding to carry out written, oral, or diagrammed instructions and resolve problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Work Style:
• • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Highly adaptable to changes in production schedules.
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively interacting with tooling department workers, supervisors, and other company employees.
• Physical Demands:
• • Regularly required to stand and use hands/fingers for handling tools and controls.
  • Frequently required to walk and communicate.
  • Occasionally required to sit, reach overhead, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  • Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
  • Specific vision abilities include close vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.