Tool Maintenance Technician

GKN Aerospace; Cromwell (CT); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

GKN Aerospace in Cromwell, CT, is seeking a skilled maintenance technician to support manufacturing by performing preventative maintenance, tool repair, and light machining. You will disassemble, clean, assemble, and test injection units, assist floor technicians, and help resolve tooling issues while upholding quality and safety standards.

Ideal candidates have 2–4 years of direct or related on-the-job experience, strong math and blueprint reading skills, and the ability to work in a team or

Qualifications

• Education includes high school diploma with 2–4 years related experience.
• Strong math, blueprint reading and mechanical aptitude required.
• Experience with hand tools, welding and brazing is desirable.
• Ability to work in a team and independently to meet schedule.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, disassemble, clean, repair, assemble, and test injection units.
• Monitor status and inventory of injection units with technicians daily.
• Layout, drill, tap, replace inserts, deburr, polish, and assist floor technicians.
• Maintain a clean, safe work environment in compliance with regulations.
• Support production scheduling as directed by supervision.
• Perform preventative maintenance duties as assigned.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Math & blueprint reading

Mechanical aptitude

Teamwork & independence

Composite manufacturing experience

Education

High School diploma or equivalent + 2-4 years experience

Job description

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Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

Provides support to maintenance and/or machining depending on schedule requirements. Individual will participate in preventative maintenance and tool repair with multiple responsibilities of servicing injection units, providing assistance to machining, and general labor. Perform mechanical disassembly, troubleshoot, cleaning, assembly, drilling, tapping, grinding, preventative maintenance, and general labor. May work with engineering to resolve problems and participate in continuous improvement. Refers unusual situations to working leader/supervisor.

Job Responsibilities

• Trouble shoot, disassemble, clean, repair, assemble, and test injection units.
• Monitor status and inventory of injection units by communicating with technicians on a daily basis.
• Layout, drill, tap, replace inserts, deburr, polish, and assist floor technicians in resolving minor tooling difficulties.
• Maintain a clean and organized work environment in full compliance with internal, customer, and government regulations.
• Works in support of maintaining the manufacturing schedule as directed by working leader/ supervisor.
• Responsible for completing assigned preventative maintenance duties as assigned by working leader/supervisor.
• Performs all duties, tasks, and responsibilities, as requested, efficiently.
• Perform repair, refurbishment or cleaning tasks with metal and/or composite tools or fixtures.
• Perform leak detection checks, welding, riveting, brazing, sanding, grinding, and other related hand tool operations to repair and/or incorporate minor engineering changes to tooling.
• Utilize hand tools such as drills, routers, riveters, and sanders to perform tool repair or refurbishment tasks.
• Check all work to assure quality standards and tool repair procedures are maintained.
• Coordinate all change activity related to production tooling.
• Coordinate release of tools for rework at suppliers.
• Track tool location and verify required information.
• Establish and maintain production engineering tooling processes.
• Estimate and evaluate producibility of tools.
• Create statement of work for tools being fabricated at suppliers.
• Comply with the GKN Compliance and Ethics Policy on Contracting with the United States Government in all areas of responsibility involving direct and indirect contracting with the United States Government.
• Comply with the Company's Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Policies and to provide fair and equitable treatment for all employees while ensuring optimum productivity and resource utilization.
• Performs other duties, tasks and responsibilities as assigned.

Job Qualifications

Education:

• High School diploma or equivalent plus 2-4 years direct or related on-the-job experience.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and problem solving skills.
• Basic math, blueprint reading, and good mechanical aptitude.
• Must be willing and able to work in a team oriented production environment with concerns for meeting cost, quality, and schedule requirements.
• Must display a positive, cooperative, and proactive attitude.
• Must be willing and able to work as a team player as well as independently is required.
• Three (3) to five (5) years composite manufacturing work experience is required.
• Work experience or training performing tasks that involve the use of hand tools or welding and brazing functions is desired.
• The ability to work independently and follow detailed work instructions is required.

Physical requirements or other local role requirements

• Specific Vision abilities required; including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus with a specific requirement for corrected vision at 20/25 or better;
• Must be able to work in a production environment and travel throughout the facilities and corporation to obtain information needed to perform job functions;
• Moderate physical effort required when lifting material or tooling.
  • Employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 25 lbs., using proper lifting techniques.

• We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities.

This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

We arethe place where human dreams, plus humanendeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.