Tooling Planner

Our Company is a modern, world class facility for injection molded plastics located in Juarez Mexico. Our employees and ownership have over half a century of experience in the molding industry.
We pride ourselves in offering the highest level of quality, customer service, and tool design capability.

Definition:
Makes or improves different types of tools to enable the production processes to be as efficient as possible. This may include jigs, fixtures, clamps or molds to obtain a more robust consistently produced part that meets the specification of the customer. Likely to be highly skilled and knowledgeable and support apprentices.

Overall Purpose of the Role:
Responsible for the planning of activities, Machining schedules, Machine loading, coordinate with Purchase and stores for stock and receipt and ordering, reporting on priority of urgent and important purchase items. Discuss with suppliers technically along with purchase.

Key Responsibilities:
General and Task Management
- Manufacturing planning of tools
- Routine follow up of tool manufacturing
- Attend tool design reviews, meetings
- Evaluate each job and determine if it can be completed in Tool Room for essential manufacturing and assembly
- Estimate length of time required to complete a job and likely consequences of failure to complete work within required timescales
- Identify and escalate any activity that has the potential to cause harm or damage
- Ensure all work is undertaken to a high quality standard and adheres to all quality standard regulations
- Ensure company targets are met in respect of quality of parts produced
- Identify spares requirements and log usage
- Take ownership of smaller less complex specific tool suite to develop and maintain performance with mínimal supervision
- Complete knowledge of 3D and 2D
- Support new project tooling from commissioning stages through to start of production
- Manufacture new tooling and ancillary spares to support production activity and customer deadlines
- Document and update tool history and other work records
- Carry out Planned maintenance.
- Carry out engineering level changes to tools and modifications
- Test and confirm electrical and hydraulic/pneumatic operation of tools before return to production
- Maintain the highest standards of workmanship at all times
- Record all relevant data in relation to tooling and record on the Tool Room database
- Be actively involved in improvement activities to support the achievement of departmental and company objectives
- Ensure risk assessments are available, read and understood for each activity undertaken
- Understand and operate within basic cost/budget measures for tooling
- Work within 5S (Sort, Set In Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) methodology to maintain workplace to a high standard
- Ensure all personal protective equipment is identified, always available, correctly used and all associated problems are reported to management
- Ensure all lost time, minor and trivial accidents are reported
- Promote environmental issues and ensure all company procedures are understood and followed
- Keep up with current and developing manufacturing and engineering trends regarding tool making
- Undertake special projects as required
- Quality control of work by appropriate reviews
- Conduct benchmarking studies to determine best practices/designs and future trends
- Plan projects or subtasks so they may be tracked and presented
- Attend various meetings and action/communicate instructions
- Undertake continuous training and development
- Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems
- Independently determine approach and assigned tasks

People Management
- Lead and/or support technicians and trainee engineers
- Train people within own work group
- Ensure a safe working environment exists for self and colleagues, ensuring all health, safety environmental and quality management procedures are followed and achieve the company’s and departmental KPI targets

Relationship Management
- Assist visiting specialist engineers when necessary
- Work and liaise with a range of internal departments and external suppliers, utilizing good effective communication across all functions
- Ensure that contractors are utilized in accordance with company procedures

Self-Management
- Comply with the Health, Safety and Environmental Policies
- Assertive, optimistic, resilient and welcomes change
- Engages interest and participation of others
- Proactively contributes to the team
- Is self aware and has a collaborative approach to working with others
- Shows moral courage, openness and honesty in all dealings
- Adaptable and flexible with a positive, responsible attitude
- Self-motivated and hard working

Skills and Attributes:

- Knowledge of measurement
- Understanding of engineering drawings
- Understanding manufacturing processes
- Ability to work in a diverse and dynamic environment
- Planning and prioritizing activities
- Good communication and interpersonal skill