At a Glance
- Tasks: Repair and maintain mould and press tooling to production standards.
- Company: Join a successful injection moulding manufacturer with a strong team culture.
- Benefits: Flexible holiday scheme, learning opportunities, on-site café, and employee support.
- Other info: Great career growth potential and a supportive workplace.
- Why this job: Develop your skills in a dynamic environment while making a real impact.
- Qualifications: Engineering qualification or apprenticeship, mechanical aptitude, and tool maintenance experience.
The predicted salary is between 36000 - 44000 £ per year.
Working with our client, a successful injection moulding manufacturer, we are looking for Toolmakers to join their established team.
Benefits:
- Flexible holiday buy/sell scheme
- Recognition and reward scheme
- Internal and external learning and development
- On site Café
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work & Tech Scheme
- Enhanced Maternity & Partner leave
Remit:
As a Toolmaker you will be responsible for the repair, maintenance and improvement of mould and press tooling to a production standard. The successful candidate will have experience in repairing and maintaining mould & press tools and display a strong mechanical aptitude and the desire to learn and develop upon their skills where necessary.
Role:
- To manufacture all work as specified by the Tool Order Request using current issue design drawings.
- To be capable of working to BS 308 drawing standards and its associated BS standards.
- Evaluate repair jobs to determine the work involved to get tooling into spec and back to production.
- Responsible for inspecting and testing your work to ensure all tooling lies within specification, meets quality standards and functional requirements.
- To comply with all current work instructions operable within your area of activity.
- To comply fully with all current Health and Safety regulations in operation within the Company whilst carrying out your toolroom duties.
- Operate all machines and processes in accordance with accepted and documented procedures such as: Manual mills, lathes, surface grinders, cylindrical grinders, jig grinders and EDM sinkers.
- Ability to perform benchwork/hand skill activities using a wide range of tools and equipment and able to maintain those tools in an operational condition.
- To carry out those tasks required by your line manager that are within your capability to meet the needs of the Company.
- Responsible for basic machine maintenance and good housekeeping.
- Report to your line manager immediately on finding any machine or equipment malfunction.
Experience:
- Engineering qualification / time served apprenticeship.
- Confident using various methods of measurement with equipment such as: Micrometres, Verniers, Slip gauges, Pin and Thread gauges, Shadow graph, etc.
- Experience and knowledge of hot runner, unscrewing mould and progression strip tooling.
- Understanding of mould and press tool processes and operations.
- Hot runner system knowledge and experience.
- Strong mechanical aptitude with the ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve issues across multiple jobs.
- Experience with standard toolroom equipment, milling, turning, grinding, Laser welding.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings.
- Computer literate with good Microsoft Office skills.
- Ability to work individually as well as part of a team.
Key Words: Toolmaker, Tooling Engineer, Tooling Technician, Tool maker, Mould Tooling, Tooling Maintenance, Tooling Engineer, Tool Design, injection moulding, Press tooling, Mould Tools.
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