Toolmaker - Wokingham

Surelock McGill Ltd; Wokingham; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sage employee benefits including discounts

Cycle to Work Scheme

On-site parking

Friendly environment in a family run business

Employee discounts

Job summary

A high security manufacturing company seeks an experienced Toolmaker for a full-time role in Wokingham. Responsibilities include manufacturing tools, repairing press tools, and ensuring quality standards. Ideal candidates will have strong engineering skills and a hands-on problem-solving approach. The company provides a friendly environment and competitive salaries based on a 37.5-hour work week.

Qualifications

• Experience in working with Toolroom machinery and equipment.
• Ability to work unsupervised and in a team environment.
• Flexibility in job duties due to workload.
• Practical problem solving and hands-on approach.

Responsibilities

• Manufacture form and cutting tools, jigs, and fixings for production.
• Repair and maintain press tools.
• Routine servicing and regrinding of tools.
• Verify tooling conformance to specifications.
• Report breakdowns and equipment faults.
• Ensure tooling is safe and production ready.

Skills

Experienced in the use of hand tool skills

Ability to read and understand engineering drawings

Experience in working with Toolroom machinery

Practical hands-on approach to problem solving

Strong communication skills

Ability to manage and prioritise multiple tasks

Tools

CNC machines

milling machine

lathe

surface grinder

Job description

Position

Toolmaker
Location: Wokingham or Oldham
Contract: Permanent, Full Time

Job Overview

An exciting position has become available for a full-time experienced press Toolmaker based in Wokingham, to work in a small friendly Toolroom within a high security manufacturing company. Position requirements will be the manufacture of form and cutting tools, jigs, and fixings to support production.

Our Toolroom has a mixture of manual and CNC machines including wire erosion.

All new tooling has fully dimensioned drawings to work from, however the ability to understand tooling functionality is essential.

Responsibilities

• Working to engineering drawings, precise tolerances and operating a range of manual and CNC machinery.
• Repair and maintain press tools.
• Routine servicing and regrinding tools.
• Verifies conformance of machined and/or repaired tools to specifications by checking dimensions/clearances/alignments.
• Report breakdown root causes, equipment faults and concerns to management.
• Ensure all work is undertaken to a high-quality standard and adheres to all quality standard regulations.
• Ensures all tooling is safe and production ready at the time returned for production use, following correct preventative maintenance (PM) process.

Essential skills – Tools & Technology

• Experienced in the use of hand tool skills.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings.
• Experience in working with Toolroom machinery and equipment milling machine, lathe, surface grinder, etc.
• Practical hands-on approach to problem solving.
• Possess strong communication skills
• Able to manage and prioritise multiple skills.

The Ideal candidate

• Due to workload and machine capacity the Toolroom works as a team so you may not start and finish the same job, a flexible attitude to work is important along with the ability to work unsupervised.
• Competitive salaries for a 37.5-hour week
• Sage employee benefits including discounts across a range of retailers, restaurants, gym, and cinema as well as 24 x7 online GP and Confidential Employee Assistance programme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• On-site parking
• Friendly environment in a family run business

Surelock McGill (Head Office)

26 The Business Centre
Molly Millars Lane
Wokingham
Berkshire
RG41 2QY

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Surelock McGill (North America)

2380 Fortune Drive
Suite 120
Lexington
KY 40509
USA

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