Toolmaker: Multi‑Skill Tooling & Maintenance Lead

Polypipe Limited; Doncaster; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Matched pension contributions to 8%

Sharesave scheme

Life assurance

Job summary

Polypipe Building Products in Doncaster is seeking a Toolmaker to maximise departmental productivity by maintaining and repairing tooling to high mechanical and electrical standards.

You will inspect, service, and rebuild tooling, perform insert and component changes, and troubleshoot press tooling to minimise downtime. The role requires apprentice-trained toolmakers with experience reading drawings and using precision measurement tools.

Qualifications

• Understand and use conventional machines (lathes, milling machines, surface grinders, cylindrical grinders, band saws).
• Able to measure and inspect parts and read engineering drawings.
• Knowledge of metallurgy and strength of materials.

Responsibilities

• Carry out tool checks ensuring correct inserts, date stamps and production standards.
• Cover press breakdowns to minimise downtime and repair or replace worn parts.
• Change inserts, cores, and shells to create required parts in presses.
• Strip down, rebuild and service tools; identify and replace worn components.
• Log tools with issues for review and repair.
• Machining new parts like pins and blocks; improve tooling where needed.
• Engage in water testing and hydraulics checks on tooling; arrange replacements as needed.

Skills

Machining equipment

Mechanical inspection

Engineering drawings

Metallurgy knowledge

Preventative maintenance

Precision measurement

Education

Apprentice trained toolmaker

Tools

Micrometre

Dial test indicators

Height gauges

Job description

Polypipe Building Products in Doncaster is seeking a Toolmaker to maximise departmental productivity by maintaining and repairing tooling to high mechanical and electrical standards.

You will inspect, service, and rebuild tooling, perform insert and component changes, and troubleshoot press tooling to minimise downtime. The role requires apprentice-trained toolmakers with experience reading drawings and using precision measurement tools.