Toolmaker

Our client in the automotive industry based in the East London is currently looking to employ an Toolmaker.

An awesome career opportunity awaits.

Requirements:

• Relevant qualification or equivalent.
• 3 – 5 years relevant experience in Plastic Injection Molding in a tool room environment.
• Proficient in all tool room machinery and equipment including, lathes, mills, EDMs, grinders, etc.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assessing/diagnosing problems and implementing corrective modifications to injection moulds
• Maintaining adequate repair supplies, tracking, and recording repairs, modifications and inventory.
• Conduct changes over and maintenance of production moulds and peripheral equipment.
• Support production needs through enhancing and upgrading existing production moulds.
• Debug new tooling and offer design enhancements as required.
• Operate all types of tool room equipment required to manufacture inserts as needed.
• Assisting in the reviewing new products and moulds for design for manufacturability.
• Assess and advance the development of current standards and practices.
• Autonomously plans and schedules own daily tasks, develops solutions to problems.
• Ability to read and interpret die, mould, and product drawings.
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated problem solving ability.
• Identify complex tooling issues and effectively find solutions.
• Fabricate and maintain a variety of tools consistent with standard tool configuration.
• Make new parts for existing moulds using sketches, blueprints, and CAD models.
• Aid in the preventative and routine maintenance of tooling and moulds.
• Use precise measuring equipment to hold medium and tight tolerances.
• Work efficiently under pressure.
• Follow maintenance procedures and record data.
• Work effectively with the quality department and all stakeholders for continuous improvements.
• Maintain optimal mould performance by identifying mould performance issues.
• Excellent mathematical skills and mechanical aptitude.