Toolmaker

**Tool Maker**

**£19.39 per hour + £1.41 shift allowance (Enhanced shift allowance rate for nights)**

**39 hours per week**

**3 shift patterns: Monday to Thursday 6am-2pm, 2pm-10pm, 10pm-6am, Friday 6am-1pm, 1pm-8pm, 8pm-3am**

**Long Eaton
**About you**

Are you apprentice trained or time-served tool maker with hands-on experience within a press tool repair and manufacturing environment with the ability to work under pressure, supporting the day-to-day production activities, working with a team to provide preventative, breakdown and development activities to support the manufacturing divisions.

Are you competent in the manufacture/maintenance of Press Tools, Mould Tools, Jigs & fixtures and used to working on your own initiative and providing technical support to production departments.

**Requirements**:

- Interpreting engineering drawings to determine the most appropriate manufacture route for tooling and modifications.
- Skilled in Toolroom machinery & equipment and trained in the safe use of lathes, milling machines, grinding wheels & pillar drills to manufacture and repair tooling, jigs, fixtures, and special purpose equipment making dimensional adjustment as required.
- Capable of assembling/disassembling press tooling or any other type of tooling.
- Checking clearances, tolerances to drawing dimensions, adjusting to ensure the performance of the tooling in production use.
- Diagnosing faults in tooling and produce corrective solutions.
- Capable of performing, or the ability to be trained to perform, ‘hard tool steel welding’

**The Tool Room**

Our dedicated tool room on-site allows us to service our existing tooling in-house so that quality and efficiency in production can always be maintained.

Our impressive range of equipment, which includes a HURCO 3 Axis CNC Miller, 3x Lathes, 2x Pillar Drills, Lumsden Grinder & 2x Surface Grinders allows us to machine complex shapes and geometries often found in tooling and optimises material removal for efficient manufacture of tooling parts.

This collection of equipment enables us to machine most tooling requirements in-house. Primarily our tool room services and maintains production press tooling; in addition, the tool room is used to develop bespoke, in-house manufacture of new press tooling’s, jigs & fixtures.