Tooling Engineer — Forging Die & Tooling Lead; ‑Site

• Locations 1600 Harvard Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44105, US (On-site)
• Job Schedule Full time
• Export-Controlled Data This position entails access to export-controlled items and employment offers are conditioned upon an applicant's ability to lawfully obtain access to such items

Howmet Aerospace is searching for a Tooling Engineerto join our Howmet Wheel Systems (HWS) business unit in Cleveland, OH.

Howmet Wheel Systems (HWS) is a business unit with a rich tradition and a bright future. We invented the forged wheel in 1948 and have remained the global leader in providing safe, strong, lightweight, and innovative aluminum transportation products ever since. ALCOA® Wheels are highly engineered products operating in challenging environments with significant product liability risk and wide diversity of end use applications ranging from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks to commercial and military vehicles.

HWS employs 1,700 people at 14 locations worldwide and produces over 4 million aluminum wheels globally with annual sales more than $800 million.

Our customers trust us to deliver a wide range of great looking and dependable products that improve fuel economy and increase payload to address their customer’s business needs. Our Commercial Vehicle Wheel products lead the world in market innovation and truck, trailer, and bus customers recognize our LvL ONE®, Dura-Bright® and Ultra ONE® wheels as the current innovative products in this market.

Under the direction of the Process Engineering Manager, this position is accountable for:

Monitor hit count to ensure that dies are being restored at proper intervals

Review forging quality and tooling health daily on the shop floor and leverage that feedback towards decision making about die and tooling maintenance

Support die and tooling readiness on-site in CLE to ensure active and upcoming forging jobs have necessary dies on-heat and contingent tooling ready for install

Respond to and investigate tooling failures in Production to troubleshoot immediate solutions and implement preventative actions to mitigate reoccurrence

Implement and track cost savings initiatives

Work to optimize die setups and changeovers

Supply data & drawings for vendors

Obtain quotes and strategically award work based on cost and timing to benefit HWS bottom line

Manage die repair priorities and ensure we are adhering to fabrication and restoration standards

Provide weekly updates to Forging Design and Process Engineering teams on die repair and fabrication status

Support forging and die design activities, revisions, creating & checking drawings, and maintaining up-to-date related documentation

Manage new fabrication, development, and modification of tooling via external die shops

Develop and maintain the Asset Binder

Manage/maintain active tooling on Smart Manufacturing dashboard

Work with Forging Design Lead to adhere to expense & capital budgets

Create and manage capital projects related to design improvements, tooling upgrades, scrap reduction, and standard equipment maintenance

Collaborate and share best practices across global HWS locations

Ship tooling internationally and ensure that associated paperwork is properly prepared in accordance with the requirements of the trade compliance group

The major activities include monitoring and controlling systems, coordinating inventory and transportation with outside resources, and awarding work to maintain the $9M inventory of HWS dies.

This requires working with constantly changing forge plans to meet internal customer requirements and managing outside entities in the repair and maintenance of dies.

The scope is regional with responsibility for new tooling manufacture for all 3 forging facilities (CLE, HWSM, HWSE),…