The Tool & Die Maintenance Engineer is responsible for the maintenance, repair, modification, and optimization of production tools, dies, jigs, fixtures, molds, and press tooling to ensure maximum equipment availability, product quality, and productivity. The role focuses on preventive, predictive, and breakdown maintenance while ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and manufacturing standards.
Tool & Die Maintenance
- Perform preventive, predictive, and breakdown maintenance of stamping dies, molds, fixtures, jigs, and tooling.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot die-related issues affecting production quality and throughput.
- Carry out die disassembly, inspection, repair, grinding, polishing, fitting, and reassembly.
- Monitor die wear conditions and recommend corrective actions.
- Coordinate die changeovers and ensure readiness for production schedules.
- Maintain die history records and maintenance logs.
Production Support
- Provide immediate support during die breakdowns to minimize downtime.
- Work closely with Production and Quality teams to resolve tooling-related defects.
- Ensure tools meet dimensional and quality requirements before release to production.
- Support new product launches and trial runs.
Continuous Improvement
- Analyze recurring die failures and implement root cause corrective actions.
- Drive cost reduction initiatives through tool life improvement and process optimization.
- Implement TPM, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, and 5S initiatives.
- Suggest design modifications for improving tool reliability and productivity.
Spare Parts & Inventory Management
- Maintain critical spare inventory for tools and dies.
- Coordinate procurement of die components and consumables.
- Monitor tooling maintenance costs and inventory accuracy.
- Regrinding/Resharpening of Punches/Dies in Tool room.
Documentation & Compliance
- Maintain maintenance records, checklists, and SOPs.
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations and company standards.
- Participate in internal and external audits.
- Update technical drawings and maintenance documentation as required.
Diploma in Tool & Die with 3 to 8 years of experience in Tool & Die Maintenance within automotive, sheet metal processing & Press tools
- Tool and Die Knowledge.
- Can understand tooling concepts.
- Can understand tooling terminologies.
- Analytical and Theoretical skills to find out the tooling issues.
- Communicate effective and sustainable solutions to the team.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities
- Work hand in hand with PPE (Engineering Dep)
- Lean Manufacturing:
- Basic knowledge of Lean Elements such as: 5S, Continuous Improvement, Kaizen, Kanban, Pokayoke, Process Mapping, SMED, SPC, TPM, Value Stream Mapping, etc…
- Mechanical Design:
- Full understanding Engineering Drawing principles and GD&T.
- Fundamental knowledge of metallurgy and material science
- Full understanding & hands on experience of Toolroom operations (Lathe, Surface Grinder, Cylindrical grinder,VMC )