Toolmaker / Tooling Engineer
- derby, derbyshire, DE1, United Kingdom
- Permanent·On-site
- Full time
Job Description
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Toolmaker / Tooling Engineer to join a well-established and technically focused manufacturing business in Derbyshire. The role will involve the manufacture, assembly, maintenance and modification of specialist production tooling, working closely with the wider engineering and development teams.
Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.
The Role
The Toolmaker / Tooling Engineer will be responsible for taking tooling projects from initial drawings through to completed, production-ready tools. This will involve a combination of conventional machining, CNC machining and EDM processes, together with tool assembly, testing and subsequent modifications where required.
Toolmaker / Tooling Engineer Salary, Benefits and Working hours
- £35,798 to start, with the opportunity to progress into a Senior role
- 45 hours per week, days only hours Monday to Friday
- Pension
- Annual Leave
This role is commutable from: Derby ? Ashbourne ? Burton ? Uttoxeter ? Stoke ? Matlock ? Belper ? Ilkeston ? Nottingham
Key Responsibilities and Experience will Include
- Operating a range of milling machines, lathes, spark erosion equipment and precision surface grinders.
- Interpreting both straightforward and complex tooling and engineering drawings and translating these into finished components and complete tools.
- Using 2D AutoCAD to support tooling manufacture and modifications.
- Manufacturing, assembling and completing tools from start to finish, working to the required standards of accuracy and quality.
- The Toolmaker / Tooling Engineer will make tooling alterations and improvements following tool trials and testing.
- Programming and operating FANUC-controlled wire EDM, CNC equipment, EDM die sinking and CNC spark drilling machinery. xwwtmva
- Working as part of a small, skilled toolmaking team while collaborating closely with the on-site engineering and development teams during trials and testing.