Tooling Engineer Manager

Means a division of Amsted Automotive in Sterling Heights, MI is seeking a Tooling Engineering Manager to lead our tooling team!

You’ll oversee daily Tool Room operations, manage tooling engineers, and guide stamping die projects from quoting through build and production.

Support manufacturing goals by improving tool life, enhancing processes, and implementing equipment upgrades.

Collaborate with program managers and plant personnel to ensure part quality, APQP compliance, and continuous improvement.

Bring your experience in tooling, stamping, and team leadership to drive operational excellence and innovation.

Who We Are 

At Amsted Automotive, we’re more than just a company—we’re a community of innovators, creators, and dedicated professionals who take pride in our work and each other.

As an employee-owned organization, every team member has a vested interest in our success and shares in our achievements.

This unique ownership culture fosters a collaborative, supportive environment where your ideas and contributions truly matter.

Come join us and be part of a dynamic team that’s transforming the industrial and automotive industries while shaping the future of mobility!

Duties And Responsibilities:


* Work closely with all plant personnel to build and maintain a safety incident-free environment.


* Act, always, according to the Amsted Automotive Group Ideal Behaviors of Performance Driven, Passion for Innovation, Customer Focused, Energize People, Think Team! Live Team! and Uphold Trust & Integrity.


* Manage the site Tooling team including Tooling Engineer(s), Tool Room Supervisor, and, indirectly, the hourly Tool & Die Makers.


* Act with primary responsibility for the growth and development of the Tooling team.


* Support Program Managers for the quoting of potential new parts.

This will include reviewing strip layouts and feasibility of part design for quoting for new stamping dies, developing dimensioning schemes to be able to use hard gaging.


* Support APQP and resolution to part-dimensional issues to meet customer quality standards.

Utilizes part capability data to adjust dies to meet required part print dimensions.

Support this by coordinating follow-up countermeasure activities for part dimensional issues following each stamping die trial.


* Support stamping die builds internal and external (die supplier) with status updates to Program Managers.


* Utilize subject matter expertise to ensure consistent and efficient mechanical press operation and controls, including leveling/flattening of incoming steel to the die, die sensor technology, and die sensor monitoring.


* Keep up to date and utilizes the latest technology for die simulation, FEA, CAD/CAM software and tooling manufacturing processes and equipment.


* Plan for the staffing of tooling engineering and tool room personnel based on forecast sales planning.


* Prepare Goals and Objectives (G&O) corrective actions for tool...