Toolmaker

Polypipe Building Products; South Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Matched pension contributions up to 8%

Sharesave scheme

Team days and events

Life assurance

Job summary

Polypipe Building Products in the UK is seeking a skilled toolmaker to maximise the productivity of the tooling department by maintaining and repairing tooling to the highest mechanical and electrical standards, ensuring consistent production quality.

You will strip, rebuild, adjust and re-fit tooling, perform tool changes, measure with micrometers and read drawings, and work on injection moulds or extrusion tooling.

Qualifications

• Must be able to understand and use conventional machines such as lathes, milling machines, surface grinders, cylindrical grinder band saws and be competent with bench work and the use of hand grinders.
• Knowledge and ability to measure and inspect parts and read engineering drawings.
• Possess metallurgical skills, knowledge of strength of materials
• Experience of preventative maintenance on production tooling
• Familiar with close tolerances utilising a micrometre, dial test indicators, Height gauges bore micrometre and gauges
• Plan and lay out a variety of complicated machine and bench operations connected with the construction, alteration, fitting, assembly, installation, maintenance and repair of all types of specialised tooling, jigs, fixtures, moulds, parts, gauges and company designated or purchased machines and equipment.
• Work from sample pieces, rough sketches, drawings or verbal instructions to plan
• Ability to work on in situ injection moulds or extrusion tooling
• Apprentice trained toolmaker

Responsibilities

• Carrying out tool checks per the plan, ensuring correct inserts and production quality.
• Repairing or replacing components to minimise downtime on presses.
• Performing tool changes, including cores, shells and inserts.
• Full strip-down, rebuild and servicing of tooling for wear and reliability.
• Logging tools with faults for review and repair.
• Turning new parts and machining small tooling components.
• Assessing tooling during set-up to improve part quality.
• Engraving and date stamping where required.
• Water test tooling and repair hydraulics when needed.

Skills

Conventional machine tools

Measurement & inspection

Metallurgical knowledge

Preventative maintenance

Close tolerances with micrometre

Plan complex tool operations

Read engineering drawings

Injection moulding tooling

Apprentice-trained toolmaker

Education

Apprentice trained toolmaker

Tools

Lathes, milling machines, surface grinders

Dial indicators & height gauges

Micrometer

Job description

At Polypipe Building Products, our people and values sit at the centre of everything we do. We design and manufacture plumbing, drainage, ventilation and water management solutions used in homes and buildings across the UK.

Part of the Genuit Group, we combine long-term stability with a culture built on teamwork, accountability and continuous improvement. We encourage fresh ideas, invest in development and are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and supportive workplace where everyone feels like they belong.

About the role:

You will be responsible for maximising the productivity of the department by ensuring that all tooling is maintained and repaired to the highest standards, both mechanically and electrically.

Your day to day:

• Carrying out tool checks in accordance with the plan making sure the tool is on the correct inserts, date stamps and to a good production standard such as cavity finish and any other issues from it being stored.

• Covering press breakdowns highlighted on Mattec to minimise machine downtime. This could be breakdowns such as stuck, fittings, cavity and core polishing, seized ejection or other parts basically repairing or replacing such as an angle pin or wear plate, getting the tool to a runnable state making quality approved parts.

• Insert changes some are done prior to tool going in and some swapped in the press. This can consist of removing cores, shells and inserts to create for example a socket /spigot part.

• Tool servicing full strip down and rebuild checking the tool for worn parts. Replacing or repairing what is required and checking the last off sample that may highlight any defects.

• Red tag log tools that have any issues to review and repair were possible.

• Turning new parts such as an angle pin, core pin milling a locking block or other small tooling parts.

• Accessing a tool and the moulded or extruded fitting and deciding on what work is required to improve it if the part is not to the quality standard.

• Date and engraving pad changes.

• Change damaged or faulty hot runner parts and rebuild

• Water test tooling checking hydraulics and repairing cylinder seals if parts are not available arranging for this work to be captured with M&p.

• Strip, repair, polish, machine and rebuild extrusion tooling to the required production standard

Skills & Experience we require:

The essentials:

• Must be able to understand and use conventional machines such as lathes, milling machines, surface grinders, cylindrical grinder band saws and be competent with bench work and the use of hand grinders.

• Knowledge and ability to measure and inspect parts and read engineering drawings.

• Possess metallurgical skills, knowledge of strength of materials

• Experience of preventative maintenance on production tooling

• Familiar with close tolerances utilising a micrometre, dial test indicators, Height gauges bore micrometre and gauges

• Plan and lay out a variety of complicated machine and bench operations connected with the construction, alteration, fitting, assembly, installation, maintenance and repair of all types of specialised tooling, jigs, fixtures, moulds, parts, gauges and company designated or purchased machines and equipment.

• Work from sample pieces, rough sketches, drawings or verbal instructions to plan

• Ability to work on in situ injection moulds or extrusion tooling

• Apprentice trained toolmaker

What we can offer you:

• Annual salary of 42,742 inclusive of shift allowance

• Monday - Friday 3 shift rotational - Day, Afters & Nights

• 25 days of annual leave plus the bank holidays

• Matched pension contributions up to 8%

• Sharesave scheme

• Team days and events

• Life assurance