We place the tool & die leaders, press professionals, and engineers who run metal stamping and tooling operations — where die design, tool maintenance, and uptime decide the cost per part.
In stamping, the money is made or lost in the tool room. Die design, press operations, and tool maintenance decide uptime, scrap, and cost per part — and the people who run them are a specialized, aging, hard-to-replace group. A great tool & die leader is one of the most valuable people in a stamping plant.
The hiring challenge is the shrinking talent pool. Tool & die makers and stamping process engineers take years to develop, and many are nearing retirement with too few coming up behind them. Replacing that expertise — or finding a press department leader who genuinely understands progressive dies — is genuinely difficult.
We recruit stamping and tooling as a technical specialty — sourcing tool & die leaders, die engineers, press and operations managers, and maintenance leaders who understand high-volume metal forming. You get people who keep dies running and parts in spec, not generalists learning the tool room on the job.
Uptime lives in the tool room. We recruit the people who design, build, and maintain it.
Tool & die makers, designers, and tool room leaders who keep dies running and improving.
Press department and operations leaders for high-volume stamping.
Die and process engineers who design tooling for new programs and reduce tooling cost.
Maintenance leaders who maximize press and tool uptime.
Plant managers and GMs who run stamping operations on uptime, scrap, and cost.
Genuine die design, build, and maintenance experience — the scarce expertise at the heart of stamping.
Runs high-volume press departments with strong uptime and scrap performance.
Can design and improve tooling for new programs and reduce tooling cost.
Maximizes press and tool availability — the metric that drives stamping economics.
Able to step into roles where retiring expertise is leaving and rebuild the bench.
Stamping and tooling comp reflects the scarce skill set — tool & die and process engineers commonly $80K–$130K, press and operations leadership $120K–$180K+. Progressive-die and complex-tooling expertise pays toward the top. We benchmark to your operation.
Yes — tool & die depth is exactly what we screen for, because it's the scarce expertise that determines a stamping plant's economics.
Progressive dies, transfer dies, deep draw, fine blanking, plus tool & die, press operations, and die maintenance. We match candidates to your processes.
Yes — replacing aging tool & die expertise is one of the hardest and most common challenges in stamping, and reaching scarce specialized talent is exactly what we do.
Tool & die and process engineers commonly $80K–$130K; press and operations leadership $120K–$180K+, with progressive-die expertise higher. We benchmark to your operation.
Often 30–75 days given the small specialized pool. We give you a realistic read up front.
Both, though scarce tool & die searches are often best run retained.
Tell us about your dies, your presses, and your programs — we'll bring you tooling professionals who have run the same kind of operation.