Toolroom Technician

A-SAFE; Elland; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension

Flexible start/finish times

Childcare vouchers

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

A-SAFE is seeking a Toolroom Technician to maintain and manage tooling across our manufacturing operation in Halifax/Elland. You’ll work with Toolroom, Process Engineers, Production, Quality and NPI teams to keep tooling reliable and safe, while supporting apprentices and tooling projects.

Extensive toolroom experience and apprentice training are essential, with a hands-on, detail-oriented approach. Initially days, with potential shift changes to support 24-hour production.

Qualifications

• Extensive injection mould toolroom experience (10+ years).
• Apprentice-trained toolmaker.
• Skilled with manual tooling repairs using turret mill, lathe and grinder.
• Able to read and interpret engineering drawings.
• Flexible, quick learner who works safely on own initiative.
• Team player with strong stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Help create, maintain and review the routine maintenance schedule for all tooling.
• Help create and maintain a tooling checklist for routine maintenance.
• Monitor tooling spares to ensure stock is available.
• Carry out tooling modifications delivering scrap and process improvements.
• Diagnose tool failures quickly and understand effects on component quality.
• Support tooling-related CAD/CAM activities.
• Support the New Product Introduction process for tooling requirements.
• Assist in training apprentices.
• Attend off-site trials as required.
• Liaise with external toolmakers for repairs/modifications.
• Ensure health, safety and environmental policies are adhered to.

Skills

Tooling maintenance

Reading drawings

Safety compliance

Team collaboration

Education

Apprentice-trained toolmaker

Tools

Turret mill

Lathe

Surface grinder

CNC milling

CAD/CAM

Job description

Location: Halifax, Elland, HX5 9JP

Hours: Full-time, day shift

Working Pattern: Full-time, On-site 5 days per week

Contract: Permanent

careers.asafe.com

Are you a time-served, apprentice-trained toolmaker who enjoys hands-on problem solving, keeping complex tooling running and seeing the difference your work makes on the shop floor?

As a Toolroom Technician at A-SAFE, you’ll assist in the maintenance, modification and management of all product-specific tooling across the business. This is a practical, hands-on role at the heart of our manufacturing operation, where the tools you look after produce safety-critical products used in industrial environments worldwide.

You’ll work closely with our Toolroom and Process Engineers, Production, Quality and New Product Introduction teams, as well as external toolmakers, to keep our tooling reliable, safe and continuously improving.

How you will make an impact:

• You’ll help create, maintain and review the routine maintenance schedule for all A-SAFE tooling.
• You’ll help create and maintain a tooling checklist to be used in all routine maintenance activities.
• You’ll monitor tooling spares, ensuring stock is always available.
• You’ll carry out tooling modifications that deliver tangible scrap and process improvements.
• You’ll diagnose tool failures quickly and accurately, understanding the effect on component quality.
• You’ll support all tooling-related CAD/CAM activities.
• You’ll support the New Product Introduction process for all tooling requirements.
• You’ll assist the Toolroom and Process Engineers in the training and development of apprentices.
• You’ll attend off-site trials as required.
• You’ll liaise with external toolmakers to discuss repairs and modifications.
• You’ll ensure all health, safety and environmental policies are always adhered to.

What we are looking for:

• Extensive injection mould toolroom experience, ideally 10 years or more.
• Apprentice-trained toolmaker.
• Skilled in the use of manual machinery for tooling repairs and modifications (turret mill, lathe and surface grinder).
• Able to read and interpret engineering drawings.
• Flexible and adaptable in approach, with the ability to learn quickly.
• Able to work safely on your own initiative, owning problems and finding solutions.
• A team player who communicates effectively with a range of stakeholders across the business.
• The role is initially days based, with a view to moving to a shift pattern in the future to help provide 24-hour support to production.

Desirable experience:

• Previous rotational moulding, extrusion and PU elastomer pouring experience.
• Experience of crane use to manipulate, strip and assemble large moulds up to 40 tonnes.
• Skilled in the use of CNC milling machines for tooling repairs and modifications.
• Basic electrical knowledge to enable work on heater elements within moulds.

You’ll also bring:

• A meticulous, detail-focused approach without losing sight of the bigger picture.
• A practical, 'can-do' mindset and the confidence to get stuck in.
• Pride in the quality and reliability of your work.
• The ability to organise and prioritise planned maintenance alongside reactive repairs.
• A collaborative approach - this is not a work in isolation role.

Why you’ll love working with us:

A-SAFE invented the world's first industrial-strength polymer safety barrier, revolutionising workplace safety, and we've been improving world standards ever since - including our next generation RackEye IoT safety device. Global blue-chip companies use our products, including Coca-Cola, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Amazon and Heathrow Airport.

You’ll join a skilled, close-knit Toolroom where your trade is genuinely valued, working on large and varied tooling in a growing manufacturing business with a true global presence across the USA, Japan, Australia, Europe and the UAE. We are known for our innovation and our 'can-do' attitude - a place where talent can thrive and develop as we grow.

At A-SAFE we put our values at the heart of the business: We are Pioneers. We do the Right Thing. We are in it Together.

We have a great track record of developing talent, offering training, professional study support and career opportunities. Our benefits package includes up to 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, a competitive salary, pension, flexible start and finish times (depending on role), childcare vouchers and a cycle to work scheme.

If you take pride in keeping tooling running, enjoy variety in your working day and want your skills to make a real difference, this role is for you.