# Supervisor, Tooling

**Company**: American Honda Motor Company
**Location**: Greensboro, NC
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $92,700.00 - $115,800.00
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4744011

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## Description

The Tooling Supervisor provides leadership and technical direction for the development and lifecycle management of production tooling systems.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading a team of Tooling Engineers, Toolmakers, and Metrology Specialists

- Managing talent development through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and succession planning

- Developing, implementing, and continuously improving tooling policies, procedures, standards, and best practices

- Providing oversight of external tooling design reviews and ensuring suppliers comply with HACI tooling standards

- Managing tooling projects from concept to production release

- Evaluating and recommending improvements to existing tooling designs

- Driving continuous improvement and Lean Manufacturing initiatives

- Managing procurement activities, budgets, and supplier relationships

- Overseeing tooling configuration control, records management, and traceability

- Leading root cause investigations and corrective actions related to tooling performance and quality issues

The ideal candidate has:

- A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Physics, Computer Science, or a related technical field

- At least 5 years of experience in aerospace tool design and/or aircraft component fabrication

- Strong working knowledge of aerospace tooling design, fabrication, modification, validation, and lifecycle management

- Advanced knowledge of tooling design and drafting practices

- Extensive experience interpreting engineering drawings and specifications

- Proficiency in CATIA V5/V6 and other CAD software

- Proven ability to evaluate tooling concepts and designs for manufacturability, safety, maintainability, cost, and production efficiency

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Experience managing tooling design reviews, supplier technical reviews, and procurement activities

- Demonstrated knowledge of metrology principles, tooling validation, and measurement systems

- Experience in applying Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies

Key performance indicators include:

- On-time completion of tooling design, fabrication, implementation, and maintenance

- Budget variance

- Percentage of tooling out of service

- Number of tooling-related quality defects

The salary range for this position is $92,700.00 - $115,800.00.

## Skills

### Required
- CATIA V5/V6
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- tooling design
- metrology
- project management

### Nice to have
- aerospace tooling design
- aircraft component fabrication
- ASMEY14.5 GD&T principles

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