A professional who coordinates activities of engineering, tool design, purchasing, and other departments, to facilitate production or procurement of tooling. Responsibilities include:

• Evaluates tooling orders received from production engineering department to determine whether tooling should be manufactured in-house or procured from outside vendor.
• Examines blueprints to determine tool requirements and special materials or items to be ordered.
• Calculates and records tool requirement data on tooling order, and routes order to tool design or purchasing department.
• Prepares requisitions for items to be purchased.
• Contacts tool room, purchasing, receiving, or other personnel to follow up on procurement or production activities and to expedite movement of tools between departments or vendors.
• Maintains manual or computerized records of tooling procurement, status, and disposition information.
• Examines tools and tool records to determine disposition of tools.
• Processes requests for tool repair.
• May transport tooling between departments or vendors to expedite handling.