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Tool & Die Maker

Subaru of Indiana Automotive · Lafayette, IN

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Level
Technician
Team
Manufacturing
Experience asked
3+ years
Industry
Automotive
Posted
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The role in 30 seconds

A technician-level manufacturing role at Subaru of Indiana Automotive (automotive) in Lafayette, IN. A-surface end products i.e.

They ask for
3+ years
Tools it names
CNC, Machining, Stamping, Welding, Tooling

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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026

Manufacturing Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $60k–$91k.

Median of the low and high ends of 52 live postings that list pay, out of 947 manufacturing technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

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How this role compares

Against 28 other live manufacturing postings in Indiana.

Experience asked
Less than usual (3+ vs 4+)

Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • Team leadership 72%
  • ✓ Tooling 41%
  • Root cause 38%
  • ✓ Machining 38%
  • ✓ CNC 34%
  • EHS / safety 28%

✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.

Stands out: this posting asks for Welding, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.

It asks for 3+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone doing this work there first.

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This plant: Subaru of Indiana Automotive in Lafayette

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Outline of duties

  • ◆Metal stamping die background
  • ◆Experience repairing and maintaining heavy presses, blank, transfer, and progressive dies
  • ◆A-surface end products i.e. large products, exposed panels
  • ◆Maintenance skills: Welding (stick and tig preferred)
  • ◆Analytical skills
  • ◆Mechanical skills
  • ◆Math & Computer skills
  • ◆Tool Room equipment knowledge (mills, lathes, grinders, and drill presses)
  • ◆Physical demands: must be able to move objects and use abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue. Constant movement and use of limbs; this position requires good manual dexterity, coordination, and stamina.
  • ◆Performs all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • ✓3 years of tool & die experience
  • ✓Class-A experience
  • ✓Tool & Die, Die Maker, Die Setter, Tooling, Tool Room, Machinist, and Machining
  • ✓Experience with heavy presses, blank, transfer, and progressive dies (repairing and maintaining)
  • ✓Surface end products i.e. large products, exposed panels
  • ✓High School diploma or GED

Preferred Qualifications

  • ✓Automotive die background (3+ years)
  • ✓Journeyman or apprenticeship card
  • ✓Draw die repair: taking damaged die and using techniques such as heat raising or welding and then finishing by hand
  • ✓In-Press troubleshooting: splits, buckles, slivers, distortion
  • ✓Draw bead repair
  • ✓Scrap fall troubleshooting
  • ✓Die timing, Die setting
  • ✓Steel and aluminum end-product experience
  • ✓Nest panel to the lower die and scrap cutters
  • ✓Die spotting. Ability to ready the high spot in the panel and make correct decisions on metal addition/removal
  • ✓Understand material flow in the die
  • ✓Balance the draw die
  • ✓Squaring up lower and upper die cutters
  • ✓Able to identify tight and loose trim by examining the trimmed edge of the panel
  • ✓Setup, operation, and basic G code programming for CNC equipment
  • ✓Overhead crane experience
  • ✓Plastic injection experience
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Tool & Die Maker

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