Blacksmith / Hand Tool Forger

2 weeks ago


Sheffield, United Kingdom Henry Taylor (Tools) Ltd Full time

We are looking for a full-time experienced Hand Tool Forger (or Blacksmith) to join our hand-crafted tool manufacturing operation. The Forger’s duties will include heating steel to a red heat in the furnace, before hand-forging (with the support of a foot-operated spring hammer) into the designs required to produce a wide range of quality hand-crafted woodcarving tools.

The purpose of this role is to help meet the demands of our global customer base.

**Responsibilities**
- Fire-up the furnace in a controlled and safe manner
- Identify and pick correct steel size to match sales order requirements
- Upset the steel (heat and manually forge using a die) to create the initial design
- Set up, operate and maintain the “Spring Hammer”
- Heat and forge the steel into the required design of the carving tools
- Match the required items to the customers sales orders
- Provide quality control checks to ensure surfaces and sizes meet specification
- Heat-treat the tools to increase the hardness of the metal structure
- Prepare the tools ready for the grinding operation
- Communicate and cooperate with supervisor and co-workers
- Keep a clean and safe working environment and utilise space
- Follow quality service standards, procedures, rules and regulations

**Skills/Requirements**
- Previous hand tool forging/smithing experience essential
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Attention to detail
- A Team player
- Able to meet the physical demands of the job
- Literacy and numeracy
- Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative
- Flexible and willing to take on a variety of tasks

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

**Experience**:

- Blacksmith / Forging: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: HTT-FO-01


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