Responsibilities
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The Tooling Engineer is responsible to manage all tooling and tooling build timelines to ensure consistently high-quality components are produced on time and cost effectively
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The Tooling Engineer is expected to ensure the most up to date technologies are utilized to continuously improve our product, meeting our customer’s expectations
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The Tooling Engineer has input into the short- and long-term strategic tooling plans as well
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Ensure that budgets and objectives are achieved and/or exceeded with respect to tooling
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Responsible for forecasting and budgeting related to tooling
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Co-ordinates with other departments and facilities the implementation, development, and improvement of new and old programs tooling requirements
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Co-ordinates the fabrication of all required tooling and equipment to support old and new programs
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Coordinates and implements engineering changes on new and existing tooled programs
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Develop and maintains a tooling manual
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Acts as technical contact for vendors on tooling issues
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Develops and maintains all tooling progress reports
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Coordinates FMEA on all new tooling
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Ensures company guidelines for part scrap are adhered to during tooling design process
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Workday to day with production quality issues pertaining to stampings or sub- assemblies
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Ensure PPAP’s are achieved on time
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Approve and sign off on tooling and gauges
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Quote tooling and piece price internally by developing process and strip layouts
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Send RFQ’s to vendors and participate in decisions when sourcing