Advanced Tooling Engineer
- Location
- Walker, MI · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid-level
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Education
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Listed
- 30 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- tool and die design
- sheet metal stamping
- GD&T
- die tryout
Also useful
- CAD
What You'll Do
Supports the creation of GD&T. Responsible for coordinating tool design, tool build, tool design reviews, sample requirements, reviewing part layouts, ordering try out steel, and archiving tool CAD data. Create SOWs and receives signed SOWs back from suppliers. Following Tooling and Component Gages from PO to home line buyoff and beyond.
Approvals / Check sheets to be filled out prior to shipping (to die shop for gages, or in house for dies) to ensure Challenge specifications are met for tooling and gages. Supports pre-source meetings with selected Suppliers ensuring quotes are correct prior to release. Provide release level Data and GD&T to selected suppliers.
- Maintaining tooling project schedules by reviewing die shop and gage shop schedules / timelines to ensure due dates are met.
- Track weekly open issues and ensure open issue closure in a timely manner.
- Verify and report the part quality throughout the program for each build requirement (drive to nominal).
- Attend Weekly Open Issues Meetings to report Die and Gage Status (timing/change levels/part quality/part status for build events).
- When and Where: This will be a 1st S hift, M-F position located at our corporate office/plant in Walker, MI.
- What You Need to Have: High School Diploma or GED (required).
Minimum six years' experience in Tool and Die Build/Design or Sheet Metal Stamping or equivalent education and experience (required). Bachelor's Degree in an engineering discipline (preferred).
Who We Are
Challenge Manufacturing's mission is to manufacture with operational excellence by empowering our employee-owners. As a leading tier 1 supplier of complex metal assemblies for the global automotive industry, we drive innovative solutions for future mobility. We believe the best ideas come from individual unique perspectives. These ideas combined with the teamwork of industry leaders allow us to accomplish any challenge.
Our team members take pride in the work we do and embody our core values of safety, ownership, and teamwork every day; they are the true driving force in our operations. Challenge is proud to be one of the largest employee-owned automotive companies in North America. One of the many benefits of joining the Challenge team is the ESOP program.
This program allows Challenge to give shares of the Company to all employee-owners annually. These shares are an additional retirement benefit that will continue to grow during your time at Challenge. Being part of an ESOP means our employee-owners share in Challenge's success! Challenge is #QualityDriven and #PeoplePowered!
Who We Want: The Advanced Tooling Engineer will work as a part of a launch team and will follow the die tooling and gages from the quoting phase to the production phase, ensuring that part specifications and deadlines are met for the successful buildup of assemblies and providing 100% quality stampings to our customers.
From Challenge Mfg's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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