Tool & Die Maker

.; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company in Rochester, NY is seeking a skilled Tool & Die Maker to join their team. The role involves constructing and repairing tools, working closely with engineering and production teams, and ensuring quality standards. Candidates should have at least five years of experience in the sheet metal industry and must be proficient in reading blueprints and understanding various metals.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience as a tool and die maker.
• Knowledge of characteristics of various metals for final product.

Responsibilities

• Constructs and repairs shop tools, gages, jigs, and fixtures.
• Makes tools and dies for various metal forming processes.
• Works with engineering and production to ensure quality of parts.

Skills

Understanding blueprints

Knowledge of metals

Tool maintenance

Attention to detail

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Job description

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Cannon Industries

A global company with headquarters in Rochester, New York, Cannon Industries has grown to become one of the leading sheet metal and custom weld fabricators in the contract manufacturing industry. Our quality standards are unsurpassed in the industry because we know that our customers’ standards grow with each passing year. Computer controlled processes, operators and technicians with decades of experience, and strict procedures for quality control have led Cannon Industries to step ahead of the competition, by earning QS:9000, ISO:9002, and TS:16949 certifications. Cannon Industries, Inc. is a drug, smoke and alcohol free working environment.

Position: Tool & Die Maker

Reports to: Group Leader

Cannon Industries

A global company with headquarters in Rochester, New York, Cannon Industries has grown to become one of the leading sheet metal and custom weld fabricators in the contract manufacturing industry. Our quality standards are unsurpassed in the industry because we know that our customers’ standards grow with each passing year. Computer controlled processes, operators and technicians with decades of experience, and strict procedures for quality control have led Cannon Industries to step ahead of the competition, by earning QS:9000, ISO:9002, and TS:16949 certifications. Cannon Industries, Inc. is a drug, smoke and alcohol free working environment.

General Job Description

Constructs and repairs shop tools, gages, jigs, fixtures or dies used in the production and acceptance or inspection of parts from sheet metal.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Five or more years experience as a tool and die maker for the sheet metal industry
• Knowledge of characteristics of various metals needed to achieve final product.
• Must be able to read and understand blueprints
• Must supply own tools
  
  

Specific Duties

• Makes tools and dies for forging, punching, milling, drilling, and other metal forming, die casting and metal cutting work.
• Layout and plan work from mechanical drawings, models, rough sketches or other oral and written specifications.
• Work with engineering and production to build Fixtures and Gages to ensure quality of parts
• Occasionally assist with making prototype and short run parts.
• Maintenance and maintain customer dies and tooling.
• Use a variety of tool and die maker’s hand tools and measuring instruments
• Understand the working properties of common metals and alloys.
• Set up and operate a wide variety of machine tools and related equipment.
• Has knowledge of shrinkage and draft and heat-treating of metal parts during fabrication as well as of finished tools and dies to achieve required results.
• Works to close tolerances on tools of intricate design.
  
  

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as it may be deemed necessary.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Machinery Manufacturing

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