Mold Operator - Senior

Toolmaker

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

Reporting to the Toolroom Supervisor, the Toolmaker will be responsible for carrying out planned maintenance activities in line with tool and schedule attainment, developing new activities where and when required, whilst always maintaining H&S standards and adhering to legislation.

• Carry out day to day toolmaking activities (including tooling service, tooling audits, bench working and manual machining), maintaining tooling availability.
• Carry out proactive work including planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and improvement work on extrusion and mould tools.
• Contribute to implementing new working methods and actively participate in continuous improvement.
• Involvement in site projects around the site.
• Maintain maintenance monitoring.
• Operate in line with all Wavin H&S Standards. To implement and adhere to safe working practices in accordance with legislation and the Wavin Work Safe programme.
• Support the Toolroom Supervisor in implementing workplace organisation across the tooling department.
• Mentor apprentices within the Toolroom and engineering department.

• Experienced bench fitter or machinist with experience undertaking form changes, bench fitting, mechanical machining of parts and cleaning and polishing of tooling equipment.
• Ability to operate toolroom equipment including manual machining tools, manual lathe, manual miller, surface grinders, & cylindrical grinders.
• Mechanical fault‑finding experience (desirable).
• CNC lathe experience (desirable).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, confident communicating with personnel at all levels.
• Effective organisational skills.
• Excellent time‑management skills with the added need for flexibility as and when required to meet business needs.
• A team player with a strong work ethic.
• Self‑motivated with the ability to work on own initiative and the confidence to work unsupervised at times.
• Can demonstrate attention to detail, with the ability to problem solve.
• Involvement in continuous improvement projects / activities, with the ability to introduce new working methods and ideas.
• A willingness to drive and actively endorse and promote excellent standards of work and H&S compliance.

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Top‑notch compensation, benefits, a supportive international environment, and access to diverse expertise are all part of what we offer to our teams.

Doncaster, DOR, GB, DN12 1BY