Maintenance Toolmaker: Keep Moulds Running

Sigma; Newport; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

5% company pension contribution

26 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Enhanced-rate overtime when available

Shift allowance included

Job summary

Sigma is seeking a Maintenance Toolmaker/Fitter to keep injection mould tools running in a plastics manufacturing environment. You won’t build tools from scratch; you’ll diagnose failures, machine fixes, and restore production quickly.

Responsibilities include tooling setup to spec, repairing tooling via in-house and external resources, managing spares, trialing new tools, and maintaining quality records while collaborating with production, technical, and maintenance teams.

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining tools as a maintenance toolmaker or toolroom fitter.
• Confident hands-on use of lathes, mills and surface grinders.
• Strong fitting skills.

Responsibilities

• Service and set up tools to specification, ready for production with the right equipment and fittings.
• Repair tooling using in-house resources and external subcontractors.
• Control the spares and materials needed to keep tooling in good order.
• Trial new tools and help develop processes with the technical team.
• Keep quality compliance records and documentation accurate.
• Work with the production, technical, quality and maintenance teams.

Skills

Maintenance tools experience

Lathe operation

Milling

Surface grinding

Fitting skills

Tools

Lathe machines

Milling machines

Surface grinders

Job description

Sigma is seeking a Maintenance Toolmaker/Fitter to keep injection mould tools running in a plastics manufacturing environment. You won’t build tools from scratch; you’ll diagnose failures, machine fixes, and restore production quickly.

Responsibilities include tooling setup to spec, repairing tooling via in-house and external resources, managing spares, trialing new tools, and maintaining quality records while collaborating with production, technical, and maintenance teams.