Senior Engineer

Tooling Engineer – Indiana Automotive Fasteners, Inc.

The Tooling Engineer is responsible for the setup, maintenance, and optimization of tools, dies, and molds used in manufacturing operations. This role ensures that all tooling supports efficient production, maintains product quality, and meets safety and cost objectives. The Tooling Engineer works closely with production, maintenance, and engineering teams to troubleshoot tooling issues and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

• Understand the fundamentals of cold forming, heading and rolling machines.
• Perform failure analysis and implement countermeasures on tooling when life ended prematurely.
• Repair critical tooling: tear down, measure, replace components, rebuild and return to machine.
• Manage tooling projects from concept through production, including design changes, supplier coordination, testing, and approval.
• Assist material changes, prototypes, and validating new tooling for new parts, referred to as Production Order Sheets (POS).
• Proficiency in CAD software (e.g., AutoCAD, Solid Works).
• Learn to operate the equipment and assist production team members in their training.
• Provide technical training and support to operators and maintenance personnel.
• Ensure all tooling meets design specifications, safety standards, and production requirements.
• Ensure the plant has tooling available; order, stock, inventory, and distribute the replenishment tooling.
• Design, develop, and validate tooling, jigs, fixtures, and gauges to support manufacturing.
• Oversee tooling fabrication, modification, and maintenance activities—both in-house and with external vendors.
• Create, update and maintain tool drawings, production documents, setup sheets, progression sheets, tool list, etc.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives in tooling design, standardization, and performance.
• Act as a backup when other Tool Room team members are out.
• Participate on the weekly/monthly ASJ project conference calls.
• Other duties as assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The essential duties and responsibilities are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Bachelor's degree + experience (0-3 years).
Bachelor's degree + experience (3-7 years).
Applicable experience only (7+ years).
Knowledge of cold forming equipment & processes is beneficial.

Effective communication skills to collaborate with other team members and suppliers. Ability to interpret technical procedures or drawings. Fluent in English. Japanese as a second language is helpful.

Ability to identify and resolve technical challenges related to tooling.

Required to stand, walk and sit; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects or controls; reach with hands and arms. Regularly required to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch and lift up to 25 pounds.

Indiana Automotive Fasteners is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind;
Indiana Automotive Fasteners is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Indiana Automotive Fasteners are based on business needs, job requirements, and Individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and or/expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by laws or regulation in the location where we operate.

Indiana Automotive Fasteners will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time