Toolmaker

Toolmaker

• Telford
• £38,000
• Permanent
• Days
• Earlier Friday finish
• Outstanding future prospects
• Thriving busy manufacturing business
• Bonus scheme
• Paid Overtime
• Reward scheme
• On-site parking

Are you an experienced Tooling Engineer / Toolmaker with hands-on experience maintaining and repairing injection moulding tooling?

We’re looking for a skilled engineer to join the Tooling team, working on a wide range of injection moulding tools, hot runner systems and tooling equipment in a busy manufacturing environment.

Commutable from Wolverhampton, Oswestry, Market Drayton, Shrewsbury, Rugeley, Cannock, Telford, Bridgnorth, Stafford and Penkridge

Duties

• You’ll be responsible for keeping production tooling running smoothly
• Carrying out both planned preventative maintenance and reactive repairs, diagnosing breakdowns and supporting new tool and product trials.
• Servicing, maintaining and repairing injection moulding tools
• Diagnosing and resolving tooling breakdowns to minimise production downtime
• Working with sequential gate hot runner systems
• Working with hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders associated with tooling and hot runner systems
• Using lathes, milling machines and surface grinding equipment
• Basic electrical knowledge relating to tool heating and controls
• Planning jobs and ensuring the correct tools, equipment and spares are available
• Supporting production during new tool and product trials

Requirements

• Mechanical / fitting apprenticeship or equivalent engineering training
• Previous experience working with injection moulding tooling
• Good knowledge of hot runner systems, ideally sequential gate systems
• Experience with hydraulic and pneumatic tooling systems
• Practical workshop experience using lathes, milling machines and surface grinders
• Basic electrical understanding
• Ability to diagnose problems and work efficiently under pressure
• Crane operating experience would be advantageous, but not essential

Please Note: Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.

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