Tool Maker

JR United Kingdom; Shifnal; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company based in Shropshire seeks a Tool Maker for double day shifts. The role involves preparing, maintaining, and testing tooling to ensure production efficiency and quality. Candidates should have completed an apprenticeship and be familiar with die casting processes. This position promotes adherence to health, safety, and environmental policies.

Qualifications

• Experience in preparing, maintaining, and testing tooling.
• Familiar with die casting processes to ensure efficient production.
• Ability to work under pressure while maintaining safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintain existing tooling and perform necessary repairs.
• Identify and resolve tooling issues to support production.
• Support engineering changes and manage spare parts.

Skills

Tool maintenance

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

HSE policy promotion

Education

Minimum of an Apprenticeship

Tools

Machining tools

Die casting equipment

Job description

Overview

Tool Maker – Double Days. Based at the manufacturing facility in Shropshire. The Tool Maker will be responsible for the preparation, maintenance and testing of tooling to support production.

Responsibilities

• Preparation and maintenance of existing tooling according to requirements.
• Identify day-to-day tooling issues and implement corrective action where required.
• Clean production tooling to ensure on-time delivery and schedule adherence.
• Ensure all tooling is safe and production-ready at the time it is returned for production use, following the correct preventative maintenance (PM) process.
• Advise the Team Leader when assignments cannot be completed as planned.
• Support coordination of engineering changes and maintenance of spare parts.
• Prepare and test tools by laying out / setting up / machining.
• May design / make tools or templates to produce prototype parts of various materials, including generating bill of materials and complete fabrication and validation.
• Verify conformance of machined and/or repaired tools to specifications by checking dimensions / clearances / alignments.
• May make parts of various plant machines and tools as required.
• Fit and assemble parts and test completed tools for proper operation.
• Set up and monitor tools and perform inspections prior to removing tooling from the machine.
• Follow up repair work by seeking feedback from production and quality departments and maintaining a record of work undertaken.
• Promote the company’s HSE policies across the department and plant.

Qualifications

• Minimum of an Apprenticeship.
• Familiar with die casting processes.