Tooling Services Supervisor (Dept 761)

Modern Machining Centers

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Responsibilities

• Maintain Tool Room and Tool Crib staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting and training employees.
• Ensure staff performance through coaching, counseling, planning, monitoring and appraising work results, conducting training and implementing and enforcing systems, policies and procedures.
• Schedules, assigns and monitors work requests; gathers resources and maintains productivity standards.
• Is point of contact for visitors and requests so tool room employees can continue their work uninterrupted.
• Provides quality service to internal and external customers by enforcing quality and customer service standards.
• Works closely with Manufacturing Engineering staff to help improve tool and fixture designs plant-wide and makes recommendations for improvement of tool fixtures and equipment for use in the tool room.
• Maintains a safe and healthy working environment by establishing and enforcing standards and adherence to legal regulations.
• Maintains own professional and technical knowledge by attending training, tool shows and reviewing technical and professional publications.
• Trains Tool Crib and Tool Room team members on crib procedures, tool handling, safety, and SAP systems.
• Identifies and leads initiatives to improve tool availability, reduce downtime, and optimize costs.
• Drives standardization of tool storage, naming conventions, and crib processes.
• Ensures compliance with company safety and environmental policies in all tool handling and storage practices.

Additional Requirements

• Leadership – Exhibits confidence in self and others, inspires and motivates others to perform well. Effectively influences the actions and opinions of others. Gives appropriate recognition to others and accepts feedback from them. Supervision – Takes responsibility for subordinates and ensures availability to staff. Provides regular performance feedback to subordinates encourages their growth and develops their skills. Solicits and applies internal and external customer feedback. Fosters focus on quality in others and continually works to improve supervisory skills. Uses appropriate disciplinary action when necessary.
• Attitude – Maintains a positive, can-do attitude and fosters the same in others; approaches problems and conflicts in a level-headed manner; demonstrates empathy for the problems and concerns of others. Quality – Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; applies feedback and looks for ways to proactively improve and promote quality; monitors own work and the work of employees to ensure quality.
• Safety and Security – Personally observes and makes sure that subordinates observe safety and security procedures; uses equipment and materials properly and safely, ensuring that employees do the same. Determines appropriate actions and reports potentially unsafe conditions.

Qualifications

• Education and/or Experience - associate’s degree (A.A.) or equivalent from a two-year college/technical school and 5 years of experience in machining or a Journeyman’s card in a related machining field or commensurate machining and management experience.