The Tool & Die Supervisor oversees personnel and productivity in the Tool Room, maintains machinery, and trains team members while ensuring quality and safe operations.
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What we offer:
At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Group Summary:
Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.
Job Responsibilities:
The 3rd shift Tool & Die Supervisor position is based around the hours of 11pm-7:30am.
Candidates must be a certified Journeyman, or have equivalent knowledge and years of experience.
Summary of Responsibilities• Provide leadership and accountability for personnel and productivity of assigned shift in the Tool Room.• To provide support for manufacturing operations by maintaining and repairing all tooling and related machinery in a safe and orderly fashion as directed by the Tooling Manager.• Oversee and direct team members in a safe, quality-minded and productive manner to attain priorities as scheduled.• The Supervisor must possess excellent leadership and human relations skills, be decisive and responsible, and lead by example.• The Supervisor must demonstrate a positive, can-do attitude and work toward continual improvement.• The Supervisor assists in training and relief of Team Members.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities• Supervision of team members to include training and development, communication and enforcement of company policies and procedures, performance coaching and evaluation, and written documentation of team member performance issues.• Schedule and assign team members to appropriate tasks to achieve department daily production, quality and housekeeping goals.• Maintain effective communication with team members via pre-shift and individual meetings regarding company policies, procedures, work rules, process documentation and environmental regulations.• Review all department objectives and coordinate objectives with production procedures in cooperation with department manager and other shift personnel to maximize product reliability and minimize costs.• Trouble shoot and obtain appropriate support to fix problems using communication between Production, Quality, HSE, Maintenance, Logistics, HR and Tooling departments.
Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:
At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.
Notice regarding the use of AI:
As part of our commitment to a fair, consistent, and efficient recruitment process, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the initial screening of applications submitted through our Workday system.
These tools help identify qualifications and experience that align with the role requirements. Please note that AI is used solely to support our recruiters. Final decisions are always made by the hiring manager and the hiring team.
Importantly, no applicant data is shared externally through these AI tools. All information remains securely within our systems and is handled in accordance with our privacy and data protection policies.
If you have any questions or concerns about this process, feel free to contact our Talent Attraction team.
Worker Type:
Regular / Permanent
Group:
Cosma International
What we offer:
At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Group Summary:
Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.
Job Responsibilities:
The 3rd shift Tool & Die Supervisor position is based around the hours of 11pm-7:30am.
Candidates must be a certified Journeyman, or have equivalent knowledge and years of experience.
Summary of Responsibilities• Provide leadership and accountability for personnel and productivity of assigned shift in the Tool Room.• To provide support for manufacturing operations by maintaining and repairing all tooling and related machinery in a safe and orderly fashion as directed by the Tooling Manager.• Oversee and direct team members in a safe, quality-minded and productive manner to attain priorities as scheduled.• The Supervisor must possess excellent leadership and human relations skills, be decisive and responsible, and lead by example.• The Supervisor must demonstrate a positive, can-do attitude and work toward continual improvement.• The Supervisor assists in training and relief of Team Members.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities• Supervision of team members to include training and development, communication and enforcement of company policies and procedures, performance coaching and evaluation, and written documentation of team member performance issues.• Schedule and assign team members to appropriate tasks to achieve department daily production, quality and housekeeping goals.• Maintain effective communication with team members via pre-shift and individual meetings regarding company policies, procedures, work rules, process documentation and environmental regulations.• Review all department objectives and coordinate objectives with production procedures in cooperation with department manager and other shift personnel to maximize product reliability and minimize costs.• Trouble shoot and obtain appropriate support to fix problems using communication between Production, Quality, HSE, Maintenance, Logistics, HR and Tooling departments.
Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:
At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.
Notice regarding the use of AI:
As part of our commitment to a fair, consistent, and efficient recruitment process, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the initial screening of applications submitted through our Workday system.
These tools help identify qualifications and experience that align with the role requirements. Please note that AI is used solely to support our recruiters. Final decisions are always made by the hiring manager and the hiring team.
Importantly, no applicant data is shared externally through these AI tools. All information remains securely within our systems and is handled in accordance with our privacy and data protection policies.
If you have any questions or concerns about this process, feel free to contact our Talent Attraction team.
Worker Type:
Regular / Permanent
Group:
Cosma International
Top Skills
Machinery Maintenance
Manufacturing Operations
Tooling
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