Tool Maker Shifnal

Tool Maker – Days – 7am-3pm Monday-Thursday and 7am-12pm Fridays

A recognised high volume manufacturer are currently looking to strengthen their Tooling department with the appointment of a Tool Maker. Working from their manufacturing facility in Shropshire, the Tool Maker will be responsible for:

• Preparation and maintenance of existing tooling according to requirements.
• Effectively identifies day to day tooling issues and implements corrective action where required.
• Cleaning of all production tooling to ensure on time delivery and schedule adherence goals are met.
• Ensures all tooling is safe and production ready at the time returned for production use, following correct preventative maintenance (PM) process.
• Ensures Leader is advised when assignments cannot be completed as planned.
• Supports coordination of engineering changes and supports maintenance of spare parts.
• Prepares and tests tools by laying out / setting up / machining.
• May design / make tools / templates to produce prototype parts of various materials including generating bill of material and complete fabrication and validation.
• Verifies conformance of machined and/or repaired tools to specifications by checking dimensions / clearances / alignments.
• May make parts of various plant machines and tools as required.
• Fits and assembles parts and test completed tools for proper operation.
• Sets up and carefully monitors tools and performs inspections prior to removing tooling from the machine.
• Follow up repair work by seeking feedback from the production and quality departments and completing a record of the work undertaken.
• Promote the companies HSE policies across the department and plant.

The successful candidate should have a minimum of an Apprenticeship and be familiar with die casting processes.

Salary: £43424/annum

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Shifnal, Shropshire