{"id":1582275,"url":"https://alion.io/job/howmet-tooling-engineer","title":"Tooling Engineer","company":{"id":2065140,"name":"Howmet Aerospace","domain":"howmet.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/howmet","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":45,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.822,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":42,"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Cleveland, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":57000,"max_usd":103000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":4330},"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-11T13:56:56Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-11","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T00:30:22Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":47,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":47},"description":"Howmet Aerospace is searching for a Tooling Engineer to join our Howmet Wheel Systems (HWS) business unit in Cleveland, OH.\nHowmet Aerospace (NYSE: HWM) creates breakthrough products that shape industries. Working in close partnership with our customers, we solve complex engineering challenges to transform the way we fly, drive, and power. Through the ingenuity of our people and cutting-edge advanced manufacturing techniques, we deliver these products at a quality and efficiency that ensure customer success and shareholder value.\nHowmet Wheel Systems (HWS) is a business unit with a rich tradition and a bright future. We invented the forged wheel in 1948 and have remained the global leader in providing safe, strong, lightweight, and innovative aluminum transportation products ever since. ALCOA® Wheels are highly engineered products operating in challenging environments with significant product liability risk and wide diversity of end use applications ranging from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks to commercial and military vehicles. HWS employs 1,700 people at 14 locations worldwide and produces over 4 million aluminum wheels globally with annual sales more than $800 million.\nOur customers trust us to deliver a wide range of great looking and dependable products that improve fuel economy and increase payload to address their customer’s business needs. Our Commercial Vehicle Wheel products lead the world in market innovation and truck, trailer, and bus customers recognize our LvL ONE®, Dura-Bright® and Ultra ONE® wheels as the current innovative products in this market.\nJob Dimensions:\nUnder the direction of the Process Engineering Manager, this position is accountable for:\nMonitor hit count to ensure that dies are being restored at proper intervals\n\nReview forging quality and tooling health daily on the shop floor and leverage that feedback towards decision making about die and tooling maintenance\n\nSupport die and tooling readiness on-site in CLE to ensure active and upcoming forging jobs have necessary dies on-heat and contingent tooling ready for install\n\nRespond to and investigate tooling failures in Production to troubleshoot immediate solutions and implement preventative actions to mitigate reoccurrence\n\nImplement and track cost savings initiatives\n\nWork to optimize die setups and changeovers\n\nCreate Die Repair Orders (DRO) for die maintenance\n\nSupply data & drawings for vendors\n\nObtain quotes and strategically award work based on cost and timing to benefit HWS bottom line\n\nManage on-time delivery of dies between die cleaning vendor and CLE\n\nManage die repair priorities and ensure we are adhering to fabrication and restoration standards\n\nProvide weekly updates to Forging Design and Process Engineering teams on die repair and fabrication status\n\nSupport forging and die design activities, revisions, creating & checking drawings, and maintaining up-to-date related documentation\n\nManage new fabrication, development, and modification of tooling via external die shops\n\nDevelop and maintain the Asset Binder\n\nManage/maintain active tooling on Smart Manufacturing dashboard\n\nWork with Forging Design Lead to adhere to expense & capital budgets\n\nCreate and manage capital projects related to design improvements, tooling upgrades, scrap reduction, and standard equipment maintenance\n\nCollaborate and share best practices across global HWS locations\n\nShip tooling internationally and ensure that associated paperwork is properly prepared in accordance with the requirements of the trade compliance group\n\nMajor activities/Key challenges:\nThe major activities include monitoring and controlling systems, coordinating inventory and transportation with outside resources, and awarding work to maintain the $9M inventory of HWS dies.\n\nThis requires working with constantly changing forge plans to meet internal customer requirements and managing outside entities in the repair and maintenance of dies.\n\nThe scope is regional with responsibility for new tooling manufacture for all 3 forging facilities (CLE, HWSM, HWSE), tooling maintenance for CLE and HWSM and daily tooling management for CLE. This involves regular communication with CLE manufacturing as well as our full-time external die shop located at JRE. This also involves ensuring that die repair costs are well-managed at our external die facilities in the Great Lakes region.\n\nMajor Customers:\nThe major customer for the Manufacturing Planner/Coordinator is the manufacturing and process engineering groups to ensure that forge tooling is available, well-maintained, and at the appropriate revision per our engineering control processes.\n\nInternal customers include HWS production and planning in Cleveland, forge die design, purchasing, traffic and quality organization. External interfaces include the outside vendor performing the die maintenance, other external suppliers, transportation companies and other CVW locations, including our facilities in Mexico and Hungary.\n\nTravel to local die shops in Cleveland and surrounding area is expected occasionally. Travel to our off-site die maintenance facility is expected monthly. Travel to HWSM facility in Monterrey, Mexico may be required occasionally. Travel required for the role is generally less than 25% of total work time.\n\nEnvironment, Health & Safety Requirements:\nThis position reports directly to the Process Engineering Manager.\n\nThis position provides technical support to the global HWS organization for the development of new technology, processes and products, and continuous improvement to reduce manufacturing costs and improve the marketability of the product.\n\nThis position requires hands on assistance in a forging environment. Including problem solving, troubleshooting and occasional off shift and weekend support.\nInternal contacts include Engineering, Production, Maintenance, Process Engineering, Design, Quality, Supply Chain, and EHS personnel. External contacts are with other Howmet Aerospace locations, outside university contacts and technical consultants, Cleveland Works’ vendors, die & tooling shops, machining sources, polishing sources, and destructive testing sources and customers.\nThe incumbent will be in regular communication with the technical department staff and the Production, Maintenance, Process Engineering, and Quality team members in the Cleveland flow path and occasionally with all global manufacturing sites.\n\n Basic Qualifications:\nA degree in Material Science Engineering or Electrical Engineering or other suitable technical education is required.\n\nMinimum of 3 years of experience in a manufacturing environment is required.\n\nStrong organizational skills and computer skills, particularly in the use of Excel spreadsheets\n\n2 years of administrative experience including planning, scheduling and coordination of work flow.\n\nEmployees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nStrong technical background in mechanical or other engineering disciplines.\n\nMechanical background, or experience with steel, metals, tooling, CNC, or design.\n\nFamiliarity/experience with CAD and technical drawings.\n\nIncumbent must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work independently.\n\nThe incumbent must also possess a high degree of people skills as he/she must motivate and influence others.\n\nIn addition to knowledge of conventional aluminum processing, incumbent must have a thorough understanding of the Howmet Aerospace Business System and methods for assessing process capability and driving continuous improvements.\n\nThe incumbent should also have a thorough knowledge of the forging process and standard practices that would normally be acquired through extensive experience in various technical assignments.\n\nThe incumbent must also have demonstrated the ability to deal effectively with people under varying circumstances.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8047,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T13:30:35Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 2","filings_12m":2,"filings_prev_12m":1,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":132500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":24,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.542,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":46,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/howmet-tooling-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/howmet-tooling-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T04:16:19Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6574,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2065140},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2065140"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhowmet-tooling-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhowmet-tooling-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhowmet-tooling-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/howmet-tooling-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhowmet-tooling-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1582275}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"howmet.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1582275},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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