Job Description

Toolmaker

Tool & Die Maintenance Service Engineers / Technicians are predominantly involved in the highly skilled, complex and specialist detailed work of maintaining the engineering tooling used to produce components, products and assemblies.


This requires the application of a broad range of activities including the interpretation of Engineering drawings and technical instructions and the use of hand, machine and automated computer controlled machine tools and measuring equipment.

Double Day Shift Pattern

Key areas of responsibility, duties and the deliverables expected:

Maintain standards of Housekeeping and Health & Safety.


Manufacture of new tooling to engineering drawings in line with timing plans.


Carrying out proactive maintenance on moulding tools that come from production and logging them in the system.


Preparing moulding tools in a good condition ready for production.


Liaise with setter's overs issues with the mould tool.


Investigate issues to find root causes passing information back to the design department and management so issues can be avoided in future.


Maintains tooling to the correct standards.


Logging of any concerns, issues and repairs.


Investigate issues to find root causes passing information back to the design department and management so issues can be avoided in future.


Working in a systematic fashion following any instructions available,


All parts of the tool carefully stored to avoiding in damage.


Maintain spares and equipment to avoid lengthy repairs time.


Maintain working area to a high standard. Working to 5S's


Good verbal communication skills


Work to the high tolerances

General Responsibilities & duties

Adhere to company quality awareness. Meeting Health and Safety standards supporting others to do the same Assist other areas of the business when required to carry out the same or similar tasks Any other reasonable Engineering duties required

Essential Skills

Time severed toolmaking apprenticeship Bench fitting Manual machining using miller, lathes and surface grinders. Level 2 in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Foundation Competence) Level 3 in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Toolmaker, Tool and Die Maintenance 5 years post apprenticeship plastic injection mould making * Production tooling support breakdowns and TPM activities