• Metal Stamping die background
• Experience with heavy presses, blank, transfer, and progressive dies - repairing and maintaining.
• A-surface end products. I.e. Large products, exposed panels.
• Maintenance skills: Welding (stick & Tig preferred).
• Analytical skills
• Mechanical skills
• Math & Computer skills
• Tool Room equipment knowledge (mills, lathes, grinders, drill presses).
• Physical demands: must be able to move objects and use abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue. Constant movement and use of limbs; this position requires good manual dexterity, coordination, and stamina.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• 3 years tool & die experience

• Class-A experience
• Tool & Die, Die Maker, Die Setter, Tooling, Tool Room, Machinist, Machining

• Metal Stamping die background
• Experience with heavy presses, blank, transfer, and progressive dies - repairing and maintaining.
• surface end products. I.e., Large products, exposed panels.
• Maintenance skills: Welding (stick & Tig preferred).
• Tool Room equipment knowledge (mills, lathes, grinders, drill presses).
• HS diploma or GED

• Automotive die background (3 years)
• Journeyman or apprenticeship card
• Draw die repair: taking damaged die and using techniques such as heat raising or welding and then finishing by hand
• In-Press Troubleshooting: Splits, buckles, slivers, distortion
• Draw bead repair
• Scrap fall troubleshooting
• Die Timing, Die setting
• Steel and aluminum end-product experience
• Nest panel to the lower die and scrap cutters
• Die spotting. Able to ready the high spot in the panel and make the correct decision on where metal is to be removed or added
• Understand material flow in the draw
• Balance the draw die
• Squaring up lower and upper die cutters
• Able to identify tight and loose trim by examining the trimmed edge of the panel
• Setup, operation, and basic G code programming for CNC equipment
• Overhead crane experience
• Plastic injection experience

Nearest Major Market: Lafayette