The Toolroom Supervisor is responsible for coordinating all tooling activities and setting the tooling standards for the manufacturing facility. Ensures that communication and coordination of all tooling repair and preventative maintenance is scheduled, both internally and externally, to coincide with development and production requirements to maximize cost effectiveness and meet customer requirements through continuous improvement. Below are additional duties and responsibilities :
- Responsible for scheduling and coordinating the activities of all toolroom employees in order to meet the demands of the production environment.
- Communicate and coordinate tooling repair and preventative maintenance scheduling to coincide with production requirements.
- Coordinate the placement of tool repairs and preventative maintenance on an internal and external basis.
- Troubleshoot tooling, related process issues, and defective parts.
- Determine repair requirements and preventative maintenance interval schedules.
- Determine preventative maintenance and repair procedures.
- Maintain tool history, tracking, storage and associated systems.
- Manage tool preventative maintenance and repair costs.
- Review and adjust preliminary design to suit production needs and costs, repair and preventative maintenance cost, tool build cost, and customer requirements.
- Maintain and update toolroom machinery, inventory, and miscellaneous supplies and equipment as needed.
- Instruct, train, and advise when and where needed.
- Maintain toolroom quality standards and efficiencies.
- Maintain toolroom labor force to suitable level and skills to support production needs.
- Investigate potential areas for continuous improvement and implement plan of action.
- Maintain a system to track tooling repair costs as well as determine what percentage of a repair belongs to the customer, the company, or others.
- Serve as a point of contact for internal and external customers as it relates to tooling repair.
- Any other duties as assigned.