Toolroom Manager

Job Roles and Responsibilities

• Operational Leadership: Direct daily toolroom operations, including the scheduling, fabrication, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of progressive, blanking, and forming dies.

• Team Development & Apprenticeship: Supervise, evaluate, and mentor a team of toolmakers; actively oversee and conduct hands-on training within the company's toolmaker apprenticeship program.

• Preventative Maintenance: Design and execute scheduled preventative maintenance (PM) routines for all active tooling to reduce unplanned press downtime and extend die life.

• Tooling Procurement & Inventory: Manage toolroom inventory, tooling spare parts, raw tool steels, carbide components, shop supplies, and procurement of new machinery and accessories.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with manufacturing engineering, quality assurance, and production press room teams to solve complex tooling issues, optimize run rates, and support continuous improvement (CI) initiatives.

• Safety & Regulatory Compliance: Enforce compliance with all workplace safety protocols, environmental regulations, OSHA guidelines, and internal operational standards.

Qualifications and Certifications

• Experience: Minimum 10 years of practical experience in a precision toolroom, tool and die shop, or metal stamping manufacturing environment.

• Leadership: Prior experience in a supervisory, team lead, or toolroom management capacity.

• Technical Proficiency: Practical working expertise with manual machine tools (lathes, mills, surface grinders), CNC machining centers, and Electrical Discharge Machining (Wire and Sinker EDM).

• Software: Hands-on familiarity with CAD/CAM software (e.g., AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Mastercam) for die review, component drafting, and troubleshooting.

• Core Competencies: Strong mechanical troubleshooting, problem-solving abilities, communication skills, and a safety-first mindset.

• Preferred Credentials: Completion of a formal state-indentured or Department of Labor (DOL) Tool and Die Apprenticeship / Journeyman Card is strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and dental insurance plans

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match

• Annual performance bonus eligibility

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid company holidays

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