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Tooling Supervisor

Adient
Battle Creek, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 1/10/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/8/2026
Job Description

Job Summary

The Tooling Supervisor supervises and coordinates activities of Tool and Die Makers and Tool and Die Trainees. The Tooling Supervisor also helps to train Tool and Die Trainees.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

  • Responsible for daily communication of tooling issues as well as prioritization of such issues to maximize press room productivity and machine utilization.
  • Manage tooling personal in all required tooling activities
  • Actively participate in tool design to obtain reliability, quality and safety and further maintain competent sources for design and fabrication of tools and machines
  • Actively applies new manufacturing technologies and aggressively evaluates and reports on manufacturing opportunities
  • Participates in product design activities to assume optimum productivity and costs.
  • Suggests alternative designs, materials or processes.
  • Must be capable of resolving all problems while maintaining good rapport with customers
  • Recommends changes for the most practical and economical manufacturing processes, including material, labor, tooling and equipment
  • Participates in selecting approving and developing tooling and equipment to satisfy manufacturing requirements and product design intent
  • Serves as customer liaison as relates to tool design and engineering matters
  • Ensures that all relevant new tooling is capable of making required product to meet all timing and production goals.
  • Works with tool vendors to insure all open insures as they relate to tool performance or tool adherence to active build standards are closed in a timely manner
  • Liaison to tool and equipment manufacturers, contractors and tool and die job shops.
  • Engaged in tool build projects. Reviews tool build progress, engineering level of product and promotes effort to meet or improve build schedule
  • Upton receipt of tooling authorization, initiates and supervises tooling changes to satisfy requirements of engineering change
  • Actively pursues quality improvements in the stamping process
  • Works closely with Advance Manufacturing Group in Plymouth to provide direction to ensure plants are pursuing latest technological advances
  • Perform other duties as required
  • Complete all required and applicable training required by Adient and its customers
  • Comply with BOS, ISO/TS-16949 and Customer Specific Requirements.

Education / Experience / Skills

Journeyman Tool and Die Card through the Department of Labor

Accountabilities

This position reports directly to the Press Room Manager

Qualifications

  • Previous experience supervising skilled trades
  • Experience training employees in the tool and die trade
  • Previous experience working as a tool and die maker in a metals plant
  • Experience in progressive and transfer dies Solid leadership skills

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Must be able to meet the requirements of being able to work in the United States (INS Form I-9).

EHS Requirements

  • Adhere to all Health, Safety and Environmental Standards
  • Report occupational injuries, illnesses and accidents
  • Report hazardous, unsafe and unhealthy conditions

PRIMARY LOCATION

Battle Creek Seating Component

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