Job Summary
Our client in the automotive industry based in the East London is currently looking to employ an Toolmaker.
An awesome career opportunity awaits.
Requirements:
- Relevant qualification or equivalent.
- 3 – 5 years relevant experience in Plastic Injection Molding in a tool room environment.
- Proficient in all tool room machinery and equipment including, lathes, mills, EDMs, grinders, etc.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assessing/diagnosing problems and implementing corrective modifications to injection moulds
- Maintaining adequate repair supplies, tracking, and recording repairs, modifications and inventory.
- Conduct changes over and maintenance of production moulds and peripheral equipment.
- Support production needs through enhancing and upgrading existing production moulds.
- Debug new tooling and offer design enhancements as required.
- Operate all types of tool room equipment required to manufacture inserts as needed.
- Assisting in the reviewing new products and moulds for design for manufacturability.
- Assess and advance the development of current standards and practices.
- Autonomously plans and schedules own daily tasks, develops solutions to problems.
- Ability to read and interpret die, mould, and product drawings.
- Excellent communication skills and demonstrated problem solving ability.
- Identify complex tooling issues and effectively find solutions.
- Fabricate and maintain a variety of tools consistent with standard tool configuration.
- Make new parts for existing moulds using sketches, blueprints, and CAD models.
- Aid in the preventative and routine maintenance of tooling and moulds.
- Use precise measuring equipment to hold medium and tight tolerances.
- Work efficiently under pressure.
- Follow maintenance procedures and record data.
- Work effectively with the quality department and all stakeholders for continuous improvements.
- Maintain optimal mould performance by identifying mould performance issues.
- Excellent mathematical skills and mechanical aptitude.