Toolroom Fitter - Flexible 8-Hour Rotating Shifts

Sigma Recruitment Ltd.; Wales; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Pension contribution

Holiday entitlement

Overtime eligibility

Rotating shifts

Job summary

Sigma Recruitment Ltd. is seeking a Toolroom Fitter for a plastics manufacturing plant in the United Kingdom. You will ensure injection mould tools run smoothly, diagnose why moulds fail, machine fixes, and restore production quickly.

The role requires hands-on tool experience, with lathes, mills, and surface grinders, plus strong fitting skills. You’ll work in a lean, well-organised workshop with predictable 8-hour rotating shifts, Monday to Friday, with weekends off.

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining tools as a maintenance toolmaker or toolroom fitter.
• Hands-on use of lathes, mills and surface grinders.
• Strong fitting skills.

Responsibilities

• Service and set up tools to specification, ready for production with the right equipment and fittings
• Repair tooling using in-house resources and external subcontractors
• Control the spares and materials needed to keep tooling in good order
• Trial new tools and help develop processes with the technical team
• Keep quality compliance records and documentation accurate
• Work with the production, technical, quality and maintenance teams

Skills

Tool maintenance

Lathe operation

Fitting skills

Tools

Lathe

Milling machine

Surface grinder

Job description

Sigma Recruitment Ltd. is seeking a Toolroom Fitter for a plastics manufacturing plant in the United Kingdom. You will ensure injection mould tools run smoothly, diagnose why moulds fail, machine fixes, and restore production quickly.

The role requires hands-on tool experience, with lathes, mills, and surface grinders, plus strong fitting skills. You’ll work in a lean, well-organised workshop with predictable 8-hour rotating shifts, Monday to Friday, with weekends off.