The Mold Shop Manager leads all mold-maintenance, repair, modification, and tooling-support activities for an automotive injection-molding facility. This position is responsible for mold availability, reliability, quality, and preventive maintenance while ensuring compliance with safety and customer requirements. The Mold Shop Manager leads mold technicians, and coordinates with Engineering, Production, Maintenance, and Quality to support daily operations.

Responsibilities
. Lead, coach, schedule, and develop mold technicians, and other mold-shop personnel.
. Manage daily mold-shop priorities based on production schedules and customer requirements.
. Oversee mold preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, cleaning, modification, and engineering changes.
. Ensure molds are production-ready and returned to service safely, correctly, and on schedule.
. Establish preventive and predictive maintenance standards based on history, condition, and risk.
. Maintain accurate records of mold condition, maintenance activity, repairs, spare parts, downtime, and recurring failures.
. Respond to mold-related production issues, including flash, dimensional variation, sticking, cooling problems, venting issues, gate defects, ejector failures, hot-runner problems, and surface damage.
. Lead root-cause analysis and permanent corrective actions for recurring mold-related issues.
. Manage mold transfers, incoming-tool inspections, condition assessments, repairs, and production readiness.
. Develop and maintain mold-repair procedures, work instructions, tooling standards, and troubleshooting documentation.
. Ensure compliance with lockout/tagout, lifting and rigging, machine guarding, chemical handling, personal protective equipment, and other applicable safety requirements.
. Maintain a clean, organized, and efficient mold shop.
. Track and report mold performance indicators, repair status, downtime, preventive-maintenance completion, and improvement activities.
. Support continuous-improvement projects that reduce mold-related downtime, and changeover time.
. Collaborate with Production, Process Engineering, Quality, and Maintenance.

Required Qualifications
. Progressive experience in injection-mold construction, maintenance, repair, or tooling.
. Leadership or supervisory experience in a mold shop or tooling environment.
. Knowledge of plastic injection mold, including multi-cavity, hot-runner, valve-gate, unscrewing, slide, lifter, and insert-molding system.
. Ability to diagnose and correct mold-related production and quality problems.
. Experience with mold preventive-maintenance programs.
. Knowledge of machining, fitting, polishing, welding, spotting, surface finishes, and mold components.
. Leadership, planning, communication, and problem-solving skills.
. Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
. Proficiency with Microsoft Office and maintenance software.
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Preferred Qualifications
. Tool and Die Maker certification, or associate degree in tool and die, machining, manufacturing, or a related field.
. Automotive Tier 1 or Tier 2 manufacturing experience.
. Experience with large-tonnage injection molds.
. Knowledge of molding principles and injection-molding process development.
. Crane and rigging.

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