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Job Description
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.