Toolmaker
Department: Tool Room
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Summary
The Toolmaker, working in conjunction with Senior Mold Making Engineer, is responsible for building, fabricating, repairing and maintaining tools for the plastic molding process.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.
- Fabricate tools for new orders.
- Make and repair inserts, work on molds, jigs and fixtures.
- Perform tool reconditioning, tool maintenance and tool preventative maintenance to keep them in proper working order.
- Revise existing tooling to improve quality product, improve production and reduce costs.
- Work with minimum supervision and be a team player.
- Provide minor maintenance on machines in tool room.
- Must have the ability to program conversational and tool path programs in multiple formats.
- Responsible for maintaining a clean and orderly work area.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience
- Two-year degree in machine tooling or similar discipline, or five years’ experience in a machine shop/tool room.
- Experience with plastic molding required.
- Practical experience in the operation and set up of machine tools.
- Good organizational/planning skills.
- Must have strong mechanical and math skills
- Ability to read, comprehend and interpret cad drawings (blue prints)
- Basic computer skills including Microsoft office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Working knowledge of Master Cam and Solidworks
- Ability to communicate effectively.
Language Skills
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to communicate effectively with other employees of the organization.
Mathematical Skills
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent.
Physical Demands
- The physical demands described here are representatiave of those that must be mdt by an employeee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently require to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, use foot/feet to operate equipment and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock; and vibration.
- The noise level in the work environment is a combination of moderate and loud.
- Safety glasses, and steel-toed shoes are required. Additional PPE may be required based on the current task.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life Insurance
- 9 Paid Holidays
- Paid Vacation
- 401(k) Plan