Multi-Die Cold Heading Setup Technician

At Phoenix Stamping, we’ve been shaping metal and careers since 1986. From Atlanta, GA to Fort Wayne, IN to Fort Worth, TX, our team builds sheet metal and rod products for customers across North America—including Canada and Mexico. We invest in highly automated equipment and live our motto every day: “Customers first, employees always!”

You arrive on any shift, review the day’s work orders, and take ownership of multiple cold heading assets. You’ll translate job travelers and drawings into precise setups, dial in tooling, and keep parts flowing to print. Throughout your 10-hour shifts Monday–Thursday, you’ll monitor quality, record data, and keep machines healthy. If needed, Friday becomes an 8-hour overtime day to meet customer demand.

• Interpret job travelers and part blueprints to determine setup, tooling, and specifications.
• Set up and run multi-die progressive heading equipment to produce parts to drawing dimensions.
• Troubleshoot out-of-spec conditions and adjust processes to bring parts back into compliance.
• Own output targets across your assigned area and hit production goals.
• Meet quality and rework objectives through in-process inspections that verify dimensions and specs.
• Track and replenish tooling inventory to avoid production interruptions.
• Complete all production documentation, including downtime, scrap, and yield calculations.
• Execute routine preventive maintenance and keep equipment in peak condition.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe workstation using 6S and site safety standards.
• Follow environmental practices; read MSDS and understand oil/chemical labeling and storage rules.
• Contribute continuous improvement ideas on a regular basis.
• Perform tooling maintenance and modifications, and take on related duties as assigned.

Reports to: Production Supervisor

• Exceptional work ethic and a growth mindset.
• 10+ years verifiable experience setting up and operating multi-die progressive headers.
• Ability to design/modify tooling to achieve required product outcomes.
• Experience with roll thread machines is a plus.
• Proficiency with shop equipment: surface grinder, lathe, hydraulic press, etc.
• Mechanical aptitude and foundational cold header maintenance skills.
• Blueprint literacy; able to follow written and verbal instructions.
• Accurate data entry in a data collection system.
• Hands-on inspection skills using comparators, calipers, micrometers, gauges, and more.
• Solid shop math for accurate calculations.

• Continuous Improvement
• Equipment Troubleshooting
• Lean Manufacturing Principles
• ERP & MRP Systems
• Advanced Inspection & Gauge Measurement
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Experience in a Manufacturing Environment
• Blueprint Reading

Phoenix Stamping Group, LLC offers a drug-free work place along with a competitive salary and benefits package. We are an equal opportunity employer (EEO), dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin and in compliance with ADAAA.