Medbio

The Tool Room Manager will lead and maintain all activities related to Medbio’s maintenance and repair of mold tools. The Tool Room Manger will manage and lead all tool room staff while working with the Engineering team to ensure that Medbio maintains tooling best practices.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Embraces and advances Medbio’s Mission, Vision and Values while fostering a team-first, positive culture.
• Exhibits & Leads safety awareness and safe work practices in all tooling areas.
• Maintain an orderly and clean toolroom.
• Operation of general toolroom equipment such as Bridgeport mills, surface grinders, manual lathers, TIG/MIG/laser welders and other shop equipment.
• Provide input on tool design.
• Participate with the Tooling Engineer(s) in the launching of new tools per the Medbio Tooling Standards document.
• Participate in tool sampling and create Tool Service procedure when applicable.
• Maintain tooling database which includes, but is not limited to, all tool information and all repairs and tool modifications.
• Educate tool shops on Medbio’s tooling standards and continue to enforce those standards.
• Trouble-shoot tooling issues on the production floor. (I.e., scrap reduction, cycle time improvement, tooling uptime/downtime, etc.).
• Lead maintenance and repair/cleaning activities on Medbio tools through use of IQMS.
• Create standard tool PM templates.
• Manage the work-load and weekly hours worked in the tool room.
• Coordinate tooling repairs with suppliers and ensure repairs are made correctly and efficiently.
• Develop Medbio’s internal tooling maintenance and tool build capabilities.
• Set up spare tooling and Kanban systems for spare tooling.
• Assess and develop existing and new tool shop relationships.
• Leadership of all tool room employees.

Organizational Relationships:

The Tool Room Manager reports to the Plant Manager. This position works closely with other Engineers, coordinates with Quality Assurance and Production tooling activities, and provides project-specific information to Finance, Sales, and Operations as necessary.

Experience and/or Educational Requirements:

• Minimum of Tooling Docs Toolroom Maintenance Manager course.
• (Prefer) 8+ years’ experience in plastic injection molding.
• Good understanding of automation systems and equipment.
• Strong product and tool ‘blueprint’ reading skills.
• Good understanding of ISO and FDA regulations and GMPs.
• Journeyman accreditation preference.

Physical Requirements:

Must be able to work and perform what would be considered standard practices for this type of position in the industry.