Toolmaker

Toolmaker Walsall up to £40k

My client is an established manufacturing company producing a wide range of plastics and metal components for a variety of customers and industries.

They are currently looking for a proven toolmaker to join their business. You will be responsible for: -

• Manufacturing of new diecast / plastic mould tooling and tooling modifications from 2D tool drawings and 3D CAD.

• Provide lead-times and hours on the scope of work required as and when requested.

• Consult with Engineering and advise on tooling design where applicable.

• Liaise with subcontractors and service providers as and when required.

• Setting up tooling to produce die castings / plastic mouldings.

• Assessment of tooling condition – ensuring they are safe and can run right first time on set up.

• Repair damaged tooling as appropriate.

• Reporting, when necessary, large repairs that will result in downtime, and external costs.

• Work closely with quality identifying tool corrections to meet customer drawing requirements.

• Support maintenance toolmakers as when requested to ensure production demands are met.

Primary Tasks/Activities – include, but not limited to: -

• Grinding of parting lines and cavity pins.

• Polishing of cores, cavities and runner systems using various media including diamond paste and polishing stones to achieve desired finish.

• Use of all tool room machinery and equipment – for example, lathe, milling and grinding machines, CNC machinery, EDM machinery and measuring equipment such as shadowgraph, digital DRO and DTI, slip gauges micrometre and vernier callipers.

• Final fitting of seal off faces, pins and moving cores.

• Validation of external, incoming supplier process's where applicable to tooling.

• Preparing new tools for sampling including completion of necessary paperwork.

• Where appropriate, complete dimensional checks of works completed.

• Review of tool modification requests and reporting of scope of work to engineering dpt.

• Stripping down, cleaning and bluing out of tooling to determine tooling condition, and longevity and repairing as appropriate.

• Use of overhead crane and other toolroom lifting equipment.

• Changing cores, slides and inserts of tooling variations in toolroom or production environment.

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