Major Responsibilities: • Work from blueprints, sketches, and verbal instructions to repair and maintain stamping dies and assembly tooling • Support production department with tooling needs; respond to shop-floor calls in a timely manner • Assure safe operation and care of tool room equipment • Produce quality work in a timely manner • Assess complex tooling and equipment needs and refurbish as required • Troubleshoot and solve tooling problems without assistance • Set up and operate all tool room equipment with no assistance. • Work to continuously improve tooling and reduce scrap • Ability to move throughout the plant • Extended sitting and standing; reaching and bending. • Occasional lifting of up to 50 lbs. may be required • Ability to access tooling both in and out of machines to troubleshoot problems • Ability to read tool and die designs and drawings • Ability to use precise measuring equipment • Ability to operate all standard tool room equipment • Must be able to work without supervision • Individual must be self-motivated • Ability to communicate well with others QUALIFICATIONS: • Prior experience working in a manufacturing environment • Completed an apprenticeship training program a plus • Demonstrated ability to produce finished components from a concept or engineering drawings • Demonstrated ability to set up and operate Bridgeport’s with Prototrac. • Demonstrated ability to set up, program, and operate CNC milling machines and lathes a plus. • Demonstrated ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to interpret bar graphs; good working knowledge of algebra, geometry and trigonometry • Experience with tools and dies for forming and bending sheet metal a plus. • Strong familiarity with Wire EDM and CAD a plus. • Work to +/-.0001 inch