Tool Room Manager

**Tool Room Manager** Senior level position, leading the day-to-day operations of the tool room, managing all aspects of injection molding tool maintenance, repair, optimization, continuous improvement, and onboarding. Salary range: $90,000 - $115,000 DOE **ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE** (*other duties may be assigned*) - Life cycle management & maintenance of proprietary and customer owned tooling. - Lead the tooling team to include training, development, mentorship, ensuring accountability, day-to-day supervision, and motivation. - Ensure the safe operation of the tooling shop. - Ensure compliance to ISO 13485 quality management system and current Good Manufacturing Processes to enable delivery of quality products to the customer. - Manage and schedule tooling preventative maintenance and repairs. Manage outside tooling vendors for major repairs. Quote tooling, approve scope of work, make sourcing decisions, audit suppliers, and track mold builds. - Evaluate current tooling, forecast needed repairs and/or replacements of molds. - Ensure preventative maintenance schedule is both established and followed with extreme attention to detail. - Manage organizing and maintaining spare components and various consumables. - Work closely with operations, maintenance, and process engineering to solve manufacturing issues and make improvements to cycle time, cavitation, and quality. - Training and development of tool room personnel. - Create, modify, or improve tooling related procedures. - Support mold builds and tool trials, including design for manufacturability. - Ensure all Tool Room personnel adhere to the Health, Safety and Quality policies, including use of PPE - Maintain a clean and safe work environment and keeps work area clean of debris. **PERSONNEL SUPERVISED** Tool Room Personnel including Mold Mechanic I, II, III, and IV, Maintenance Technicians, and custodians. **QUALIFICATIONS** To perform this position function successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. **EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE** - Associate Degree in a technical field, Journeyman Toolmaker Certificate, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. - Prior experience managing mold repair or build projects with outside tool shops to control costs and deliver excellence, on-time. - Prior experience and understanding of de-coupled injection molding and structured process development. **Preferred:** - Experience as a Tool Room Manager, Tooling Engineer or Tooling Manager in a medical molding environment. - RJG or similar training. **SKILLS-ABILITIES** - Knowledge of mold design, fabrication, development, testing, validation, and processing. - Strong understanding of preventative maintenance and repair of molds, as well as a strong understanding of typical machining, Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM’s), etc. - Experience with Hot Runner manifold systems - Understanding of servo, hydraulic and pneumatic driven mold components - Familiarity with ISO 13485 and current Good Manufacturing Practice. - High-energy, team-based management style with a positive personality. - Attention to detail, ability to prioritize, maintain flexibility, high level of initiative. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel). - Ability to read and interpret technical drawings. - Self-motivated, conscientious, with a results-oriented mindset. - Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. - Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. - Ability to speak clearly before groups of customers or fellow employees. - Ability to use measuring tools, depth gau…