Tool & Die Maker

Tool & Die Maker

Stamping Section

Outline of duties:

• Metal stamping die background
• Experience repairing and maintaining heavy presses, blank, transfer, and progressive dies
• A-surface end products i.e. large products, exposed panels
• Maintenance skills: Welding (stick and tig preferred)
• Analytical skills
• Mechanical skills
• Math & Computer skills
• Tool Room equipment knowledge (mills, lathes, grinders, and drill presses)
• Physical demands: must be able to move objects and use abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue. Constant movement and use of limbs; this position requires good manual dexterity, coordination, and stamina.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3 years of tool & die experience
• Class-A experience
• Tool & Die, Die Maker, Die Setter, Tooling, Tool Room, Machinist, and Machining
• Experience with heavy presses, blank, transfer, and progressive dies (repairing and maintaining)
• Surface end products i.e. large products, exposed panels
• High School diploma or GED

Preferred Qualifications:

• Automotive die background (3+ years)
• Journeyman or apprenticeship card
• Draw die repair: taking damaged die and using techniques such as heat raising or welding and then finishing by hand
• In-Press troubleshooting: splits, buckles, slivers, distortion
• Draw bead repair
• Scrap fall troubleshooting
• Die timing, Die setting
• Steel and aluminum end-product experience
• Nest panel to the lower die and scrap cutters
• Die spotting. Ability to ready the high spot in the panel and make correct decisions on metal addition/removal
• Understand material flow in the die
• Balance the draw die
• Squaring up lower and upper die cutters
• Able to identify tight and loose trim by examining the trimmed edge of the panel
• Setup, operation, and basic G code programming for CNC equipment
• Overhead crane experience
• Plastic injection experience

Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to employing a diverse workforce.