Tool and Die Superintendent

AUTOKINITON is a leading North American supplier of propulsion-agnostic, structural automotive components and assemblies. Our 100% vertical integration capabilities allow us to offer our customers end-to-end engineering, manufacturing, and in-house logistics. At AUTOKINITON, we are building a better foundation for every vehicle on the road.

AUTOKINITON is recognized by our customers as one of the top suppliers in our industry.

Reasons you will love working here:

- Learning and Development Opportunities.
- Growth Opportunities with tuition reimbursement programs, upward mobility and much more.

**Responsibilities**:

- Support the Company’s mission, vision, values and goals in performance of daily activities.
- Responsible for performance feedback and leadership of all direct reports including mentoring, coaching, counseling and corrective action when situations dictate.
- Provide key input into the development of the Plant’s strategic business plan and identify and track key measurable to support plant business plan goals.
- Develop and drive the development of departmental strategy goals and identify and track key measurable to support the department goals.
- Provide direction and leadership consistent with plant business plan goals.
- Responsible for tool and die department safety, quality, production and delivery objectives.
- Responsible for leading all tool and die activities in the plant.
- Track, monitor and implement required improvement activities related to business plan, goals, issues, etc.
- Assist, as required, plant activities to achieve customer cost reductions goals.
- Provide active leadership role in meeting / exceeding customer expectations in all related areas.
- Utilize teamwork to develop plant synergy.
- Develop and manage die preventive maintenance schedules.
- Responsible for ensuring accountability and discipline.
- Responsible for maintaining maximum levels of production utilization and efficiency.
- Responsible for driving the work team to assure timely and efficient repair of dies in order to achieve maximum throughput.
- Drive department manning levels and utilization to assure compliance to budget.
- Provide leadership and promote positive moral and ensure a total team concept.
- Provide the proactive leadership necessary to achieve and maintain a continuous improvement mind set for the team.
- Coordinate and assess required training and team building.
- Provide colleagues with the necessary training to be successful in their roles.
- Assure work orders are prioritized appropriately.
- Champion assigned engineering changes, communicate and coordinate accordingly to all departments.
- Provide input into quoting and business development activities (pricing, program management, plant capacity, etc.
- Direct, drive and participate in problem solving methods for related plant and customer issues.
- Responsible for overall department coordination and communication.
- Communicate key information to the organization through the daily "shift to shift" communication plan.
- Drive and support plant activities towards achieving customer awards and quality registrations (ex. TS 16949, ISO 14001, etc.).
- Assure all direct reports are aware of their Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) responsibilities and hold all direct reports accountable.
- Responsible for ensuring the entire team has the necessary tools and materials to properly perform their roles safely and efficiently.
- Assure all safety devices are properly in place and utilized and verify individual usage of personal protection equipment (PPE) by the work team.
- Responsible for following all internal and OSHA required safety procedures in performing all daily work activities.
- Maintain a positive working relationship with all levels of the organization.
- Maintain high level of housekeeping in the work area.
- Adherence to all company policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Background in engineering, design, manufacture and repair of dies.

**Required Skills**:
Required Experience