Toolroom Manager

Job Title:

Toolroom Manager

Location:

Leicestershire

Shift: Monday - Thursday, 8am - 5pm and Friday, 8am - 4pm

Pay:
Up to £50,000 per annum

• Permanent position
• Free onsite parking
• Company events
• Company pension
• Overtime available

A well-established manufacturer of high-precision plastic injection moulds, supplying a range of key industries across the UK and Europe.

We are currently seeking a driven and committed Toolroom Manager to join our growing team. This position has become available due to continued business growth, with projected expansion of over 50% in the next year. We're looking for motivated individuals to help us meet this demand.

We take pride in maintaining a clean, organised, and professional toolroom. The successful candidate will play a key role in sustaining and improving standards of organisation, cleanliness, and overall presentation.

Liaise with the customer to understand their needs within a project and communicate this clearly to the design and manufacturing team.

• Tool design, mould flow and DFM interrogation to check feasibility and suitability of the design against the customers and moulders needs.
• Understand and interrogate part and tool designs for manufacturability and efficiency.
• Assign daily workload to the shopfloor staff and explain each job to them as required.
• Troubleshoot manufacturing issues from CNC machining, EDM machining and fitting issues.
• Monitor progress and provide regular updates to customers.
• Create project plans showing the timeline of key activities in the project.
• Attend the final tool build checklist with the fitting team, making sure the quality standards are met before we despatch tooling to customers.
• Buying of mould bases, standard mould parts, cutting tools and other workshop equipment.
• Project management of Chinese tooling, communicating with our project managers oversees to check progress and quality. International travel could be available but not essential.
• Attend tool trials and provide support to the process team for troubleshooting.
• Review parts from trials and understand injection moulding process/tooling defects.
• Create tooling rework plans and oversee trial loop until approved.

• Strong technical background in plastics and tooling.
• Experience in interpreting 2D and 3D engineering drawings.
• Background in tool design, mould flow analysis, and DFM reviews.
• Involvement in managing varied tooling projects from start to finish.
• Hands‑on experience with CNC machining, EDM, and tool fitting processes.
• Proven people management and organisational skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and quality standards.
• Flexibility to adapt to different projects and changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills to liaise with customers and internal teams.
• Ability to create and manage project timelines and tooling plans.

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