Tool and Die Supervisor

About the role

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact. With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing skilled workers responsible for constructing, maintaining, and modifying, machining operations on tools, dies, prototypes, forms inserts, punches, fixtures, and molds.
• Coordinating the setup and operation of various lathes, grinders, milling, and boring machines used to produce tools.
• Scheduling, prioritizing, and assigning jobs and tasks within tool and die department.
• May be required to perform machining tasks as a working leader of the tool and die team.
• Completing high-level tool development work and ensuring jobs are completed correctly and on time.
• Suggesting improvements to processes and serving as a knowledge resource for other team members.
• Ensuring full die readiness with necessary contingency plans for consistent press shop operations.
• Working with other departments such as production, quality control, and engineering to address issues and support new product development.
• Diagnosing and fixing technical production issues associated die status or condition.
• Demonstrating initiative to implement best practices, train, and mentor growing employees.
• Managing existing tooling and die performance to specs., ensuring calibration and maintenance of existing tooling and die, as well as planning and working to implement new equipment within tool and die department.
• Actively modeling IDEX values: Team, Trust, and Excellence.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

10 years experience as tool and die maker; Journeyman Tool and Die Maker; 2 years successful tool and die leadership.

Skills

• Leadership of die making and CNC machining operations.
• Hands‑on expertise using machine tools: lathe, mill, surface grinder, machining centers, wire and sinker EDM.
• Knowledge of and experience working with various tool steels and carbide materials.
• Expertise regarding construction and maintenance of progressive stamping dies.
• 3D CAD expertise (SOLIDWORKS Preferred).
• General computer skills including MS Office.

Benefits

• Health benefits.
• 401(k) retirement savings program with company match.
• PTO.
• More information on benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: https://www.idexcorp.com/careers/our-benefits-and-rewards/

Pay

The compensation range for this position is $97,000.00 - $145,400.00, depending on experience. This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.