Director of Tooling

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Summary

As a Technical Director, you will have the opportunity to work with senior leadership to drive technical initiatives while also helping to set overall technical objectives and strategy.

The ideal candidate should have a solid technical background and be able to manage and motive people. Others within the organization will look to you for leadership on delivering competitive and marketable solutions and offerings.

As part of the center of excellence team, the Director of Tooling Engineering provides the organization with best practices focused on lean manufacturing and tooling process improvements in collaboration with team members.

The Director of Tooling Engineering will work to develop procedures, solutions, and analyze key performance indicators to find ways to improve plant performance while also responsible to represent Pace Industries as the technical Liaison between the customer and the Pace Manufacturing facilities.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

(but not limited to...)

• As a Technical director, you will have the opportunity to work with senior leadership to drive technical initiatives while also helping set overall technical objectives and strategy.
• Apply data driven tooling design principles on existing manufacturing processes for solutions.
• Identifying areas that need tooling optimization in alignment with plant budget needs.
• Evaluating the efficiency of manufacturing technologies, instruments, equipment, and tools and communizing standard practices across plants.
• Identifying areas for improvement and developing solutions for enhancement to automate the manufacturing processes focused on tooling.
• Support cycle time advancement using best practice engineering methods and provides expert technical guidance for engineering initiatives.
• Manages overall engineering budget and costs without compromising quality and efficiency.
• Ensuring compliance with industry standards and safety regulations.
• Documenting processes and preparing progress reports.
• Keeping abreast of developments and innovation in automation.
• Driving technical innovation, leadership, coaching, and mentoring to direct reports to foster a culture of excellence and continuous learning with plant and Pace Leadership.
• Attract, develop, and retain talent to achieve a strong team; and develop own technical, coaching and leadership skills to stay inline with industry trends.
• Enforce technical standards, policies, and procedures where applicable.
• Serve as a change agent, actively cultivate an inclusive engineering culture to create high performing teams and individuals with a goal of sustainable, longterm growth and customer partnership.
• Exhibit strong emotional intelligence, interpersonal and leadership skills to build loyalty trust, and commitments from key customer contacts involved with making decisions.
• Embraces a Kaizen mindset relative to continuous improvement of processes and automation. Continually searches for means to improve performance & customer satisfaction and institutionalizes improvement opportunities using a Lessons Learned process.
• Support, communication, reinforce and defend Pace's mission, values, and culture.
• Coordinate tooling activities to maximize competitive positioning and advantage, and to develop new and emerging capabilities.

Please note that the duties and requirements described herein are intended to represent general contents of this job. This is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties and responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field is required
• 10+ years' experience leading complex engineering projects and tooling, including a minimum of 10 years spent in the automotive industry.
• 3+ years' experience in a supervisory capacity
• Strong technical acumen with an excellent understanding of tooling processes
• Excellent organizational, time management, leadership, and project management delivery skills
• Effective communication skills across all levels of management and customer community
• A blend of technical expertise, problem solving and program management skills capable of leading a highly skilled team to deliver the project goals.
• History working with cross functional teams, providing advanced technical support and consulting.
• Experience providing technical leadership to the branch, customers, and suppliers shaping strategy and guiding technical direction/priorities.
• Have a proven track record of dealing with competing priorities, resolving ambiguities, and delivering complex projects ontime and within budget.
• Strong technical background with Experience in Aluminum High Pressure Die Casting or Sand casting/SPM required.
• Ability to keep the big picture in focus and to provide clear, wellstructured, and concise communications tailored to each appropriate audience.
• Must be able to lead and influence project members.
• Must be able to read and interpret complex engineering drawings and can understand geometrical dimensioning and tolerancing.
• Training and experience in APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, 8DReport, SPC in addition to IATF16949 requirements.
• Passion for Great Customer Service and training team members.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and MS Project or similar project management software.
• Title of Certified project management professional title or a project management degree, an asset.
• Ability to travel to support the plants as needed.

Skills:

• Ability to interact with all levels of the organization, from production associates to senior leaders.
• Ability to function as a team player, and be comfortable leading without authority.
• Ability to build credibility and trust.
• Ability to influence leaders, and change their paradigms.
• Must be proficient with the use of the Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and Minitab statistical analysis software.

Key Position Competencies:

• Communications – Listening, Reading Comprehension, Speaking and Writing.
• Cognition – Analysis/Reasoning, Creative & Innovative Thinking, Decision Making & Judgement, and Problem Solving.
• Personal Effectiveness – Accountability & Dependability, Adaptability & Flexibility, Customer Focus, Development & Continual Learning, Ethics & Integrity, Results Focus & Initiative, Safety Focus, Self-Management, Stress Tolerance, and Tact.
• Interaction with Others – Influencing Others, Relationship Building, Teamwork and Valuing Diversity
• Occupational – Advocating Causes, Enforcing Laws, Rules & Regulations, Facilitating Groups, Interviewing Others, Providing Consultation, and Presenting Information.
• Management Qualities – Business Alignment, Coaching and Mentoring, Leadership, Fiscal Accountability, Organizational & Political Savvy, Planning & Organizing, Staff Management and Strategic Vision.

Pace is a career destination for engaged, passionate and talented people who are driven to seek the innovation, growth and opportunity that only we offer.

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