Tool Room Supervisor

Objective

Provide leadership and direction to toolroom personnel as needed. Responsibilities may include the hands-on repair of the tooling in production and/or during preventative maintenance. Perform all tasks requested by the Manager, and/or other management personnel. Position is directly responsible for managing the maintenance activities of personnel / contractors engaged in maintaining and repairing of tooling.

Main Responsibilities

• Ensure all Safety Rules, policies, and regulations are being followed.
• Ensure escalation policies are followed.
• Manage personnel on All Shifts both on the Production floor and in the Tool Shop.
• Drive culture of sustainable repair with root cause corrective actions.
• Always keep work area clean and orderly adhering to all 5S standards.
• Provide training for the development of Tooling Technicians.
• Assist Manager in the evaluation performances of Team Leaders.
• Leads performance evaluations for technicians.
• Perform administrative documentation and evaluations for direct reports.
• Relay suggestions for improvement to your Supervisor/Manager.
• Maintain small repetitive usage tools and rigging in tooling area.
• Organize and maintain the storage in tool shop.
• Participate in shift changeover meetings.
• Participate in production overlap and production downtime meetings.
• Follow all PM’s in progress and keep documents updated.
• Keep tooling priority list updated.
• Assist Manager in building overtime work schedules.
• Ability to work overtime on short notice, including weekends.
• Support on call activities for non-production days as required.
• Assist in ordering supplies and/or materials needed for tool shop.
• Asist in maintaining the tooling machinery in the tool shop.
• Adhere to all quality measures.
• Participate in the TPM program as needed.
• Ability to operate all equipment safely in a manual state.
• Ability to operate in SAP environment to perform job tasks.
• Make sure all scheduled PM’s from the SAP system are completed in a timely manner.
• Asist in the SMED actions to improve die set timing.

Position Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience working with HPDC Casting Tooling
• 3+ years’ leadership experience
• Demonstrated ability to read blueprints
• Knowledge of work order system, planning, scheduling and storeroom processes.
• Ability to multi-task and manage priorities
• Ability to accurately estimate labor hours, material requirement and skills needed to complete a job and must be able to visualize and communicate the execution of work

Nemak USA, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Nemak USA, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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