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Toolroom Technician

  • Location: West Yorkshire
  • Salary: Up to £32436 per annum per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted about 1 month ago

Job Role: Toolroom Technician
Location: Huddersfield
Salary: £32,436


Permanent

Metalis are currently in partnership with an metal closures company. Looking to recruit a Toolroom Technician to join their team working on a rotating shift pattern.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • To maintain tools and production equipment
  • To correctly identify tooling issues and to work with other team members to resolve these when it looks as though a more serious problem might be developing
  • To take part in improvement activities
  • To behave in a manner that is safe and that promotes good manufacturing practice
  • To work with team members to improve the effectiveness of the change-over processes

Candidate Requirements:

  • To understand all safety rules
  • To understand all quality rules
  • To be able to maintain tooling and production equipment
  • Carry out servicing on current tooling and production equipment
  • Experienced in setting and operating lathes, milling machines, surface grinders and other workshop equipment
  • To implement and understand TPM and improvement processes
  • To liaise with visitors as necessary
  • Ability to work under own initiative as well as part of a team
  • Experience in tool manufacturing
  • Experience gained within a similar working environment
  • Experience with CNC milling and turning using XYZ machines
  • Power press and metal forming equipment
  • NVQ Level 3 Mechanical Engineering
  • Abrasive wheel training

DESIRABLE REQUIREMENTS

  • Experience in maintaining press tools, rolling and forming tools
  • To take part in the Health and Safety Committee or other representation roles as and when required

Salary and Shifts:

  • Monday - Friday 06.00 - 14.00 and 14.00 - 22.00 with flexibility

If this vacancy sounds of interest please apply today and one of our consultants will be in touch with suitable applications.