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At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 40 brands, 14,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. 

Additionally, Allegion is proud to be recognized with the 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for the third consecutive year, earning distinction in both the employee engagement and strengths categories. This year, Allegion also received Gallup’s With Distinction honor — a designation reserved for a select group of organizations that go above and beyond in building exceptional workplace cultures.

Position Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Tool Room Supervisor to lead and coordinate the preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance programs for tooling, molds, and fixtures. This role is responsible for ensuring maximum tool availability, overseeing spare parts manufacturing, driving continuous improvement projects, and leading a team of specialized Tool Room Technicians in a world-class manufacturing facility.

Key Responsibilities:

• Tooling & Mold Maintenance: Supervise and execute total predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance programs for production molds, dies, and tooling to achieve $\ge 99.5%$ availability and $\ge 95%$ efficiency.
• Tool Life & Shot Tracking: Maintain and update the mold shot counter matrix, coordinate mold refurbishments, and plan end-of-life mold replacements.
• Team Leadership & Development: Supervise, mentor, and develop Tool Room Technicians (Levels A, B, C); identify training needs and manage departmental goals and performance.
• Tool Design & Fabrication: Participate in the design, development, machining, implementation, and certification of manufacturing and inspection fixtures using CAD/CAM and CNC programming.
• Continuous Improvement & Root Cause Analysis: Lead root cause analysis (A3 / BPS methodologies) for tooling failures, reduce downtime, and drive scrap reduction initiatives.
• Quality, Safety & Compliance: Ensure all operations comply with EHS regulations (OSHA 18001 / ISO 14001) and Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001). Actively participate in internal/external audits.
• Budget & Resource Management: Assist in department budget administration (AOP), spare parts inventory control, and purchase requisitions through ERP systems (Oracle).

Qualifications and Experience:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering, or related field (Título requerido).
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in Tool Room / Tooling Maintenance environments within the manufacturing industry, with at least 2+ years in a supervisory or leadership role.
• Technical Skills: Strong hands-on knowledge in mold repair, tooling maintenance (TPM), and machining processes. Proficiency in CAD software (CREO or SolidWorks) and CNC programming/operation. Advanced handling of MS Office (Excel / Macros).
• Systems: Experience with ERP systems (Oracle, Workday, Kronos) is preferred.
• Languages: Intermediate to Advanced English (capable of reading technical documentation and business conversations).

Key Competencies:

• Strong leadership and talent development abilities.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills (Root Cause Analysis, A3/8D).
• Results-oriented with high attention to detail, safety, and quality standards.

We Celebrate Who We Are! 

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we’re required to, but because it’s the right thing to do.   We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team.

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