Stamping Toolmaker

Your Job

Molex is seeking a skilled Stamping Toolmaker to support the maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of high-speed stamping dies used in our manufacturing operations. In this role, you will play a critical part in ensuring tooling reliability, product quality, and production efficiency while collaborating closely with production, engineering, quality, and tooling teams.

Our Team

You will join our manufacturing team supporting stamping operations, working closely with Toolmakers, Production, Die Designers, and Quality teams to ensure reliable tooling performance and continuous operational improvement.

What You Will Do

• Perform preventive maintenance, repair, and troubleshooting of high-speed stamping dies to ensure optimum tooling performance, reliability, and uptime.
• Diagnose tooling and die-related issues, identify root causes, and implement effective corrective actions to minimize production disruptions.
• Support die setup, qualification, handover, and validation activities to ensure smooth introduction of new or modified tooling into production.
• Collaborate with Production, Engineering, Quality, and Die Design teams to resolve technical challenges and support manufacturing objectives.
• Participate in production event investigations and quality improvement activities, identifying tooling-related root causes and recommending sustainable solutions.
• Monitor tooling performance and manufacturing processes, proactively identifying opportunities to improve quality, productivity, tooling life, and cost efficiency.
• Support die design reviews and tooling modification activities by providing hands-on manufacturing and maintenance expertise.
• Perform precision machining, grinding, drilling, fitting, and adjustment activities required for die maintenance and repair.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior toolmakers, sharing best practices and troubleshooting knowledge to strengthen team capability.
• Maintain high standards of safety, workmanship, documentation, and housekeeping while supporting continuous improvement initiatives across the stamping operation.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• NTC 3 in Metal Machining or equivalent trade certification.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in tooling, die maintenance, stamping operations, or a related manufacturing environment.
• Experience in high-speed stamping die maintenance, repair, and setup.
• Hands-on machining skills including grinding, drilling, fitting, and tooling adjustments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.

What Will Put You Ahead

• 10+ years of experience in stamping tool and die maintenance.
• Experience supporting high-volume precision stamping operations.
• Exposure to die design review, tooling modification, and continuous improvement projects.
• Experience conducting root cause investigations and implementing corrective actions.
• Ability to mentor and develop junior toolmakers.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving  innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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