Toolmaker

Oldbury | Up to £33,000 | Permanent | 37 Hours per Week

Are you an experienced Toolmaker with hands-on experience of pre-pierce and cut-off tooling?

We’re recruiting for an established manufacturing business in Oldbury who are looking to add an experienced Toolmaker to their team.

This is a hands-on toolroom position supporting a busy manufacturing operation, with responsibility for the manufacture, maintenance, repair and fault finding of tooling to ensure production runs efficiently and downtime is kept to a minimum.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for:

• Manufacturing, maintaining and repairing production tooling
• Working specifically with pre-pierce and cut-off tools
• Diagnosing tooling faults and carrying out repairs and modifications
• Supporting production breakdowns and minimising downtime
• Manufacturing new tooling and components
• Operating manual and CNC toolroom machinery
• Surface grinding, milling and turning
• Working from engineering drawings to specified tolerances
• Supporting tooling try-outs and continuous improvement activities

About You

We’re particularly interested in hearing from experienced Toolmakers who have:

• Hands-on experience of pre-pierce and cut-off tooling – essential
• A background in press tooling and/or roll-forming tooling
• Experience manufacturing, repairing and maintaining tooling – rather than solely machining components
• Strong fault-finding and problem-solving skills
• Manual machining experience including milling, turning and surface grinding
• The ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and work accurately to tolerances
• Experience of CNC machining and/or wire EDM would be advantageous
• A practical, hands-on approach and the ability to support production when tooling problems arise

If you’re an experienced Toolmaker with pre-pierce and cut-off tooling experience and are looking for a permanent opportunity with an established manufacturing business, we’d love to hear from you.