Toolmaker

Travail Employment Group; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Travail Employment Group is seeking a Toolmaker for a permanent role in Gloucester. The successful candidate will be an experienced, time-served toolmaker with background in press or mould tooling and a focus on precision, quality and continuous improvement.

The role involves maintaining and developing tooling, working on conventional lathes and milling machines, reading drawings, and collaborating with the Design Engineer to improve products and tooling, all within a double day shift schedule

Qualifications

• Time served apprenticeship with toolmaking experience.
• Able to work to precision tolerances and ISO9001 standards.
• Experience with press tools, mould tools or tooling environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve existing press tools to reduce scrap.
• Develop and test new press tools for new products.
• Operate conventional lathes and milling machines and relay drawings to Design Engineer.
• Collaborate with Design Engineer to implement improvements on current and new tooling.

Skills

Time served

Precision tolerances

Quality standards

Education

Time served apprenticeship

Tools

CNC

Lathe

Milling machine

Job description

Toolmaker - Gloucester - Permanent - Double Day Shift - 37.5 per week Monday to Friday - c£40k - Interviewing ASAP

We have an excellent opportunity for a Toolmaker to join our manufacturing client, based in Gloucester. Our client are a prestigious leading organisation and a market leader within their industry - the ideal candidate will be a time served apprentice, with experience of tool making from a Press Tool or Mould Tool background.

Key Duties:

• You will be a traditional time served apprentice trained Toolmaker or Mechanical Engineer who has a good understanding of press tools, CNC, lathes and manual machinery.
• Able to draught and/or understand technical drawings and relay this to the Design Engineer.
• The successful Toolmaker will be required to work on maintaining existing press tools making improvements for scrap savings etc.
• Able to work on development of new press tools working on new products and to test and tool them.
• The Toolmaker will be working with conventional lathes and tools day to day making adjustments and improvements utilising lathes, milling machinery.
• Work closely with the Design Engineer and work on improvements to current and new products.

Experience:

• The company would consider someone with mould tool experience looking to gain experience of tooling of press tools.
• Used to working to precision tolerances.
• Working to ISO9001 standards.

Our client offers a clean modern environment with the opportunities for progression and development.