PEAK Technical Staffing

Tool & Die Specialist Staffing & Recruitment

Protect your tooling programs with specialists who are in it for the long haul. Let PEAK find experienced tool and die specialists, die makers, and precision tooling professionals: the kind of long-tenure, relationship-driven candidates your operation depends on.

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50+
Years placing precision tooling professionals in hard-to-fill markets
50
U.S. states covered with regional and local talent pipelines

Discipline Expertise

Tool & Die Roles We Place

Role What They Do
Tool & Die Specialists Fabricates, repairs, and maintains the dies, molds, jigs, fixtures, and gauges used in production manufacturing. These people work to tight tolerances and read engineering drawings to produce and modify precision tooling.
Die Makers Designs and builds dies used in stamping, forming, and casting operations, typically in automotive and metal fabrication environments where production tooling is the foundation of manufacturing output.
Mold Makers Produces injection molds, blow molds, and compression molds used in plastics manufacturing. This work requires precision machining, polishing, and assembly skills specific to mold construction and maintenance.
Precision Tooling Specialists Designs and manufactures precision tooling components, including fixtures, gauges, and specialty tooling, used in aerospace, medical device, and high-tolerance production environments.
Toolroom Machinists Supports production operations through the fabrication and repair of tooling, fixtures, and specialty components, bridging the gap between tooling design and production machining.

Why Work with PEAK?

Why Work with PEAK?

National reach, local connections.

PEAK has spent decades building relationships in regions where demand is high and talent is scarce.

Total talent management.

We go beyond filling reqs. We handle the administrative and compliance requirements for critical roles.

55+ years of experience.

We know what works, what doesn't, and how to navigate a tough market. Because we've done it so many times before.

PEAK Protected™

With PEAK, Your Workforce is Always Protected

Tool and die is among the most specialized categories in precision manufacturing — and carries the longest average time-to-fill of any role in our 2026 Skilled Trades Workforce Outlook. Average hourly wages range from $32–36, with senior specialists in automotive and aerospace supply chains regularly exceeding $43.


In our experience, finding these in-demand professionals can be a months-long process. But the longer it takes to hire them, the more tooling repairs get deferred, die wear goes unaddressed, and production quality degrades quietly. Then, you end up with a tool failure that forces a line shutdown that costs far more than the hire would have.


PEAK Protected™ is our proven approach to ensure your workforce is reliable, compliant, and ready to perform. This means you always have:

Operational Continuity

Your projects stay on track.

Compliance Assurance

Your workforce meets every requirement.

Safety Alignment

Your teams are prepared for your environment.

Cost Protection

You avoid the hidden costs of bad hires and vacancies.

Workforce Reliability

You get talent that performs from day one.

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Where We Place

Industries and Environments

Tool and die specialists placed by PEAK go into environments where precision tooling is the foundation of production.

Advanced Manufacturing
Automotive Supply Chain
Aerospace & Defense
Plastics & Injection Molding

How We Engage

Our Service Offerings

Direct Placement

For most tool and die roles, direct placement is the right structure. PEAK helps you identify the right candidate, build a competitive offer, and close on someone who will commit long-term to your tooling program.

Contract-to-Hire

For roles where cultural fit, tooling program alignment, or team integration genuinely requires time to evaluate, PEAK structures contract-to-hire arrangements that give both sides the runway to confirm the match.

Contract Staffing

For project-specific tooling needs, PEAK provides contract staffing support across precision tooling disciplines.

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Ready to Hire a Tool & Die Specialist?

Whether you need to protect an existing tooling program or bring in precision tooling expertise for a new production launch, let PEAK find the right professional for what your operation requires.

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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Tool and die specialist staffing is the process of sourcing, qualifying, and placing precision tooling professionals into manufacturing environments. Unlike general manufacturing staffing, tool and die placement requires an understanding of tooling processes, the materials and tolerances involved, and the institutional nature of tooling knowledge that makes this discipline unusually difficult to source through conventional means.
Tool and die specialists are among the most relationship-driven candidates in the skilled trades. Many have spent their careers with the same employer, developing deep knowledge of specific tooling programs that a resume may struggle to convey. PEAK's approach to tool and die placement is built around candidate relationships developed over time: knowing who's open to a move, what kind of environment they'll commit to, and how to make the case for a specific opportunity to someone who isn't actively looking. That's fundamentally different from what a generalist staffing firm can offer.
Yes, and for most tool and die roles, direct placement is PEAK's recommended and most effective approach. Experienced specialists ready to make a move are looking for permanent positions that offer long-term stability and a tooling program worth committing to. PEAK offers contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement across all precision tooling disciplines, and actively recommends direct placement for roles where tooling program continuity, institutional knowledge retention, and long-term reliability are the primary requirements.
PEAK places tool and die specialists into advanced manufacturing, automotive supply chain, aerospace and defense, and plastics and injection molding environments. These industries share a common dependency: the quality and continuity of their production tooling programs is directly tied to the expertise of the specialists who build and maintain them.
Compliance is built into PEAK's delivery model. For every tool and die placement, PEAK administers I-9 and E-Verify verification, ensures proper worker classification, and maintains workers' compensation coverage. For placements into aerospace, defense-adjacent, or automotive supply chain environments, where ITAR familiarity, AS9100 quality system adherence, or IATF16949 compliance may apply, PEAK verifies applicable credentialing and documentation requirements as part of the placement process.