Toolsetter

MAHLE; Durban; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

MAHLE is recruiting a Toolsetter for our Durban, ZA site. Reporting to the Production Foreman, you will plan daily tool changes, maintain tooling records, and support production with data updates and audits.

You will ensure outputs meet sales needs within capacity, manufacture to spec, and maximize material use while minimizing scrap. You will uphold Health, Safety and Environment requirements, ensure equipment availability for current and future plans, and actively participate in CIP and 5S

Qualifications

• Trade Tested certification is required.
• Experience as a Fitter and Turner / Millwright / Toolmaker is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years in a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct daily tool changes and tooling maintenance with records.
• Provide production support including data updates and audits.
• Ensure output meets sales requirements within plant capacity.
• Manufacture to customer specifications and company standards.
• Utilise materials cost-effectively with minimal scrap.
• Maintain Health, Safety and Environmental standards.
• Ensure plant and equipment meet current and future plans.
• Contribute to World Class Manufacturing initiatives.
• Participate in CIP (Continuous Improvement Processes) and A3 problem solving.
• Drive the 5S process.

Skills

production experience

sense of urgency

Education

Trade Tested

Fitter and Turner / Millwright / Toolmaker

Job description

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Together, we move the world—we’ve been doing it for over 100 years. At MAHLE, as a leading international development partner and systems supplier to the automotive industry, we pursue the objective of making mobility more efficient, more environmentally friendly, more convenient, and more economical. As part of our dual strategy, we are working both on the intelligent combustion engine for the use of hydrogen and other nonfossil fuels and on technologies for fuel cells and e-mobility.

MAHLE generated sales of €11.3 billion in 2025. Employing just under 65,000 people at 127 production locations and 11 technology centers, the company is represented in 28 countries. (as at: 12/31/2025). Join our MAHLE team! #weshapefuturemobility

Your Contribution

As a Toolsetter, reporting to the Production Foreman, you will be responsible for:

• Plan and conduct daily tool changes and tooling maintenance whilst maintaining tooling records.
• Production support that includes updating data and reports whilst also conducting product and process audits.
• Ensure the production output meets the sales requirements within the plant’s capacity constraints.
• Manufacture the product to the customer’s and agreed company specification.
• To ensure that materials are cost effective and efficiently utilized to pre-determines standards with minimal scrap.
• To ensure that the Health, Safety and Environments standards meet legal requirements.
• To ensure appropriate plant and equipment is available to effectively meet present and future production plans.
• Continually strive to develop each plant toward World Class Manufacturing standard.
• Be actively involved in the CIP process (Continuous Improvement Processes). Problem Solving Activities (A3).
• Drive the 5S process.

Your Experience & Qualifications

The ideal candidate should have the following qualification and experience

• Trade Tested
• Fitter and Turner / Millwright /Toolmaker
• 5 years’ experience in a production environment
• Technical understanding – will be advantageous

Personal Competence

• Must have a sense of urgency.

Leadership & Management

• Ability to work and communicate/Instruct in a team

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Facts about the job

Entry level: Experienced hires

Part- / Full-time: Full Time

Functional area: Production

Department: BU2 Thermal and Fluid Systems

Location: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, ZA

Company: MTFS (ZA)

Closing date for applications

Your future at MAHLE

As a team player and someone who thinks ahead, you can deploy all your skills with us. In cooperation with colleagues from different countries and areas, you contribute in designing the mobility of the future. When selecting MAHLE, you choose trend-setting technologies and strategies. Are you interested in working with us and developing efficient and environmentally-friendly solutions, optimising existing products, and turning innovative ideas into reality? Then MAHLE is the right address for you.