Tooling Manager; Mold/Composite/FRP/Manufacturing Job Richmond area,BC Canada,Manufacturing / Production

Position: Tooling Manager (Mold/Composite/FRP/Manufacturing)

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Whitewater's Engineering Services department is looking for a candidate to join us in the following role:

Position:
Global Mould and Tooling Manager

Shift: Regular Full Time, hours a week

Department:
Engineering Services

Location:

Richmond, Canada

Reports to:

Manager, Engineering Services

Purpose:

The Global Mould and Tooling Manager is fully accountable for the full lifecycle governance of all tooling assets, ensuring they are designed, documented, deployed, maintained, and retired in a controlled, traceable, and cost-effective manner across the global manufacturing network. The role will ensure that tooling assets are fit for purpose, available when needed, and aligned with evolving product and manufacturing requirements.

This role owns the operational and capital economics of the global FRP mould portfolio, balancing uptime, quality, and lifecycle cost through disciplined maintenance, refurbishment, and investment planning.

The Global Mould and Tooling Manager partners closely with internal teams in Engineering, Product Development, Quality, and Operations and is accountable for evolving the tooling function into a governed, transparent, and scalable global asset-management capability. The role acts as the primary interface between the company and all mould-holding suppliers and tooling partners, ensuring consistent execution of mould handling, storage, maintenance, and modification standards ensuring that mould availability, readiness, and resilience align with global production schedules, capacity plans, and supply chain strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

Mould Asset Governance, Lifecycle & Data Ownership

Own the end-to-end lifecycle of all FRP mould assets, including design approval process, capital budgeting authorization, purchasing, commissioning, production use, maintenance, refurbishment, storage, transfer, replication, and decommissioning.

Enforce global standards for mould construction, documentation, usage limits, maintenance intervals, refurbishment criteria, and retirement decisions.

Serve as the single point of accountability for all mould assets globally, ensuring clear ownership, status visibility, and lifecycle decision authority.

Own and govern mould-related manufacturing data and systems, including drawings, bills of material, part masters, configuration data, and revision control across suppliers and regions.

Ensure mould assets remain fit for their intended process capability, production volumes, and quality requirements throughout their service life.

Maintain standardized mould status classifications (, active, idle, under repair, obsolete) to support operational and financial decision-making.

Global Mould Inventory, Traceability & Asset Visibility

Establish and maintain a single, authoritative inventory of all FRP moulds, including unique identification, location, supplier stewardship, condition, revision level, and usage history.

Implement and govern digital mould tracking and documentation systems (ERP, MES, PLM, or specialized tooling databases) as the system of record.

Provide real-time visibility into mould availability and condition across all manufacturing partners and regions.

Define and enforce controlled processes for mould storage, transfer, and audits to prevent loss, duplication, or unmanaged modifications of tooling assets.

Supplier, Partner & Tooling Network Management

Act as the primary interface between the company and all mould-holding suppliers and tooling partners.

Ensure suppliers adhere to defined standards for mould handling, storage, maintenance, reporting, and modification.

Plan and coordinate new tool builds, mould transfers, repairs, and refurbishments in support of production requirements.

Conduct audits of supplier tooling practices and drive corrective actions where deficiencies or risks are identified.

Manage an extended global tooling network to ensure consistent execution, accountability, and availability of critical mould assets.

Maintenance, Refurbishment, Cost Control & Capital Planning

Define and enforce preventive and corrective maintenance standards for FRP moulds based on process requirements, material systems, and expected service life.

Approve mould refurbishments, surface renewals, structural repairs, rebuilds, or retirements based on wear, quality performance, risk, and future demand.

Manage internal…

Tooling Manager; Mold​/Composite​/FRP​/Manufacturing

Tooling Manager; Mold/Composite/FRP/Manufacturing