Your role in our mission
As Global Tooling Strategy & Engineering Lead / Manager, you play a key role in strengthening the technical foundation of Nedschroef’s manufacturing organization. You support the transition from locally driven tooling decisions to a more centrally governed tooling approach, helping the organization make better, more consistent and future-oriented decisions on where and how tooling is developed, built and maintained.
In this role, you focus on analyzing tooling commodities across all Centers of Competence and translating technical complexity into clear, fact-based decisions. You work closely with Global Tooling Procurement to define the global tooling allocation strategy, based on factors such as technical feasibility, supplier capability, total cost of ownership, risk and long-term business strategy. By combining technical expertise with a structured and pragmatic approach, you help ensure that tooling decisions contribute directly to operational excellence, cost-effectiveness and continuity across the organization.
You take ownership of the central tooling drawing repository and ensure that tooling and product drawings are complete, accurate and ready for tendering and execution. You translate drawings into concrete requirements regarding machines, competencies, lead times and supplier capabilities, and you assess technical risks at supplier level to support sound and scalable decision-making.
Working closely with internal stakeholders and external suppliers, you contribute to supplier selection, capability assessments and performance evaluations. You also help guide Centers of Competence in adopting the global tooling governance model and support alignment between new product introduction, tooling service activities and serial production tooling. In this position, you act as a visible and credible technical authority across the organization, bringing together engineering expertise, governance and collaboration to support a more standardized and high-performing tooling landscape within Nedschroef.
