Toolmaker​/Tooling Engineer

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Toolmaker / Tooling Engineer to join a well-established and technically focused manufacturing business in Derbyshire. The role will involve the manufacture, assembly, maintenance and modification of specialist production tooling, working closely with the wider engineering and development teams.

The Toolmaker / Tooling Engineer will be responsible for taking tooling projects from initial drawings through to completed, production-ready tools. This will involve a combination of conventional machining, CNC machining and EDM processes, together with tool assembly, testing and subsequent modifications where required.

• £35,798 to start, with the opportunity to progress into a Senior role
• 45 hours per week, days only hours Monday to Friday
• Pension
• Annual Leave

This role is commutable from:
Derby, Ashbourne, Burton, Uttoxeter, Stoke, Matlock, Belper, Ilkeston, Nottingham

• Operating a range of milling machines, lathes, spark erosion equipment and precision surface grinders.
• Interpreting both straightforward and complex tooling and engineering drawings and translating these into finished components and complete tools.
• Using 2D AutoCAD to support tooling manufacture and modifications.
• Manufacturing, assembling and completing tools from start to finish, working to the required standards of accuracy and quality.
• The Toolmaker / Tooling Engineer will make tooling alterations and improvements following tool trials and testing.
• Programming and operating FANUC-controlled wire EDM, CNC equipment, EDM die sinking and CNC spark drilling machinery.
• Working as part of a small, skilled toolmaking team while collaborating closely with the on-site engineering and development teams during trials and testing.

This is an opportunity to join a business where technical expertise, craftsmanship and engineering quality are genuinely valued. The Toolmaker / Tooling Engineer will work within a close-knit team, have the opportunity to work on varied and technically interesting tooling projects, and play a hands-on role in taking designs through to finished production equipment. The environment offers scope for someone with strong practical skills to broaden their experience across machining, EDM, tooling development and problem-solving, rather than being restricted to repetitive production work.

The company is looking for someone who takes pride in producing high-quality work, enjoys solving practical engineering challenges and wants to be part of a technically capable team where their contribution has a visible impact on the finished product.

Please Note:

Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.