Tooling Technician: Precision Maintenance & Tooling Expert

Vaillant Group Belgium; Belper CP; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Generous pension scheme

Death in service benefit

ROS PA Gold medal award recognition

Family-friendly policies

Health checks and flu vaccinations

Job summary

Vaillant Group Belgium is seeking an experienced Tooling Maintenance Technician to support production in the UK on a permanent, full-time basis. You will resolve tooling breakdowns, perform preventative maintenance, and contribute to continuous improvement projects across press tooling, fixtures and jigs.

You will read engineering drawings, operate workshop machinery, and collaborate with production and quality teams to ensure high-quality output.

Qualifications

• Must have a recognised technical apprenticeship or equivalent in mechanical engineering or toolmaking.
• Experience in press tooling maintenance or manufacturing environments with forming, cutting or bending processes is preferred.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings with accuracy.
• Experience with CNC programming or advanced tooling design is advantageous but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Resolve tooling breakdowns and carry out preventative maintenance on press tools, fixtures and jigs.
• Diagnose and fix complex tooling issues to minimise downtime and ensure consistent production quality.
• Manufacture, repair and adjust tooling using tool room equipment (lathes, milling machines) for reactive maintenance and continuous improvement.
• Perform tooling modifications to enable production of different component variants.
• Ensure tooling meets engineering specifications and delivers high-quality output.
• Take ownership of recurring issues and contribute to tooling projects with accurate documentation.

Skills

Reading engineering drawings

Team communication

Proactive problem solving

Machinery operation

Education

Recognised technical apprenticeship / mechanical engineering or toolmaking

Tools

Milling machines

Lathes

Grinders

CNC programming (advantage)

Job description

Vaillant Group Belgium is seeking an experienced Tooling Maintenance Technician to support production in the UK on a permanent, full-time basis. You will resolve tooling breakdowns, perform preventative maintenance, and contribute to continuous improvement projects across press tooling, fixtures and jigs.

You will read engineering drawings, operate workshop machinery, and collaborate with production and quality teams to ensure high-quality output.