Toolmaker

Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Salary: up to £38,000 per annum (Negotiable dependant on experience)

Benefits:

• 23 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Company pension scheme
• Flexible schedule
• On-site parking
• Excellent working conditions
• Great team ethos
• Busy and growing business
• Well-equipped Toolroom
• Approachable management
• Structured working atmosphere
• Relaxed, yet busy environment
• Lots of overtime available

Company Profile
One of the UK’s leading injection moulding and mould tooling companies who have been
established for over 40 years are looking for an experienced Toolmaker due to recent
investment in a larger and modern premises, state of the art machinery and making great
additions to their already highly skilled workforce.
The company offers excellent working conditions alongside a highly skilled and friendly
team.
The workload will be interesting and varied, using various machinery and providing full
turnkey solutions for all moulding requirements.

Job Profile
As the successful Injection Mould Toolmaker, your main functions will be to Manufacture and modification of Injection mould tools in a modern well-equipped toolroom, with Hurco machining centres, Sodick Wire eroders, Sodick CNC Spark eroders, Jones & Shipman surface grinders.

Duties:

• Use of manual milling and turning machines (conventional mills and lathes).
• Use of surface and cylindrical grinders.
• Use of manual and CNC spark eroders.
• Use of CNC wire eroder.
• Modification & repair of Injection Mould Tools.
• Manufacture and fitting of new injection mould tools
• Using hand tools such as files, hacksaws and grinders
• Experience in general toolmaking, milling, grinding and fitting
• Wiring of Hot runner systems and fault finding

Skills & Attributes:

• Experience in injection mould Toolmaking, and high precision machining.
• Understand and have experience of fitting and assembly of complex mould.
• tools including their repair.
• Can work to tight timescales without compromising quality and safety.
• Modification of Injection Mould Tools in well-equipped modern tool room.
• Preparing new Mould Tools for Production.
• Maintenance, repair and modification of Injection Mould Tools.
• Experience in general toolmaking, milling, grinding and fitting.
• Manufacture of Injection Mould Tools, using the latest technology in a newly fitted
• out toolroom.
• Experience in toolmaking, manual milling, turning, grinding, EDM Wire and spark
• erosion and fitting. CNC Machining experience an advantage.
• Must have the ability to communicate well and be part of a team in a small business.

Hours of Work:

• 41.5hrs per week
• Core Hours of Work: Mon-Thurs 8-5pm, Friday 8-4pm
• Overtime rate: 10%

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