Manager, Tooling Delivery & Quality

Your tasks

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Staff Engineer oversight: Set clear priorities, responsibilities and deliverables for the Staff Engineer. Review tooling schedules, progress reports and escalations, and provide direction, coaching and technical support.
• On-time delivery accountability: Review and endorse achievable tooling delivery commitments based on capacity, material availability and manufacturing lead times. Oversee progress from design and material preparation through machining, inspection, trial and shipment.
• Quality governance: Work with engineering, production and quality teams to ensure tooling meets approved drawings, specifications and acceptance criteria. Ensure inspection, trial, approval and documentation requirements are fulfilled before release.
• Risk and recovery management: Lead regular delivery and quality reviews, identify bottlenecks and risks early, assign action owners and deadlines, and escalate unresolved issues promptly. Ensure recovery plans do not bypass quality requirements.
• Problem resolution: Coordinate root-cause analysis and corrective actions for tooling defects, rework and delivery delays. Verify action effectiveness and prevent recurrence.
• Cross-functional coordination: Resolve issues across design, production, quality, procurement and logistics. Communicate delivery commitments, changes and quality concerns to relevant stakeholders.
• Performance management and reporting: Establish agreed delivery and quality targets, review results and provide management updates on tooling status, risks, recovery actions and improvement progress.
• Continuous improvement: Lead improvements in planning discipline, manufacturing flow, inspection readiness and process standardization to reduce lead time, defects, rework and cost of poor quality.

Requirements

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent technical qualification supported by relevant industry experience.
• Industry experience: Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in tooling, mould and die manufacturing or precision engineering, including at least 5 years in a supervisory or managerial role overseeing engineering, production planning or tooling delivery.
• Delivery management: Demonstrated experience managing tooling schedules, capacity planning, resource allocation and recovery actions to meet committed delivery dates.
• Technical knowledge: Strong understanding of precision machining, tooling manufacturing, engineering drawings, dimensional tolerances and tooling inspection and trial requirements.
• Quality management: Practical experience with quality-control requirements, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, and reducing defects, rework and cost of poor quality.
• Leadership: Experience supervising and developing engineers, setting priorities and coordinating cross-functional teams to resolve delivery and quality issues.
• Planning and analytical skills: Proficiency in production planning or SAP systems and spreadsheet-based analysis to monitor capacity, tooling progress and delivery and quality KPIs.
• Communication and decision-making: Strong stakeholder management, problem-solving and escalation skills, with the ability to balance delivery commitments, resource constraints and quality requirements under tight deadlines.