Toolmaker (Injection Moulding)
Day Shift
£ATTRACTIVE
Buckinghamshire
Job Purpose:
Responsible for the repair, maintenance and improvement of all tooling in line with production and customer requirements to support business objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Tooling strip down and diagnosis for repair.
- Tooling improvements.
- Support the production areas in technical assessment of tooling issues.
- Preventive maintenance of tooling
- Complete tool reports and ordering of spare parts.
- Maintenance data control of moulds.
- Polishing of A surface moulds to quality acceptable levels.
- Cleaning of tool faces to a quality finish within the moulding machine.
- Preventive maintenance of the shop's machinery.
- Implement modifications to moulds if applicable.
- Fabrication of fixtures and spare parts for tooling.
- Liaise with external tool shops.
- Maintain Spare parts system
- Maintain tooling standards and enhancements.
- Interface with New production tooling manager on new tooling.
- Comply with the quality and environment standards procedures and instructions.
- Involvement in all activities generated as a result of changes, requirements and/or improvement in the process of the applicable area
- Work within 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) methodology to maintain workplace to a high standard.
Experience & Qualifications:
- Considerable Previous tool making experience.
- Understanding of engineering drawings.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes
- Planning and prioritising activities.
- Good Communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to present data effectively.
- Understanding of Health & Safety practices.
- Analytical skill set.
- Understand lean manufacturing.
- Understanding of cost and financial impacts.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Able to work with the minimum supervision and to timescales.
- Good understanding of customer deliverables and the impact of failure/cost of poor quality.
- Practical hands-on approach to problem solving.
- Experience of working to tight production targets.
- Understanding of lean manufacturing and 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardise, Sustain) process
- Understanding of production costs to include waste, downtime, scrap and re-work
Please note all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK