Lead Tool & Die Maker

Lead Tool & Die Maker

The Lead for Tool & Die is responsible for overseeing and directing tool and die employees to produce high-quality residential and commercial air conditioning and heating products. Leads the team to produce in an efficient manner with disruptive-free production, and safe work environment. The Tool & Die Makers are responsible for maintaining all tooling in the Plant. The scope of duties are as follows: Sharpening all tooling and maintain proper punch entry and pass line heights, establish timing of stations on all progressive tooling, have the ability to maintain all forming stations in the tooling, ability to operate all tool room equipment, competency to build miscellaneous jigs and fixtures, ability to work with minimal supervision, & ability to trouble-shoot tooling problems at the press. Position Responsibilities may include: Design die details and FAI engineering in CAD. Run EDMs and Program EDMs. Communicate with Operations team leads to set priority. Set priority levels of projects/tasks and direct die makers to specific tasks based on priority (including Press Calls). Own 5S in shop and maintain tooling to ensure quality production parts. Build Jigs & Fixtures. Trouble-shoot tooling problems at the press. Implement Engineering Changes on existing tooling.