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Tool Maker

Job details
Posting date: 14 February 2025
Salary: £14.48 to £16.08 per hour
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 21 February 2025
Location: Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2PZ
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Travail Employment Group
Job type: Temporary
Job reference: 76003479_1739523067

Summary

TOOL MAKER £14.42ph to £16.08ph, OVERTIME AND DOUBLE TIME, PERMANENT AFTER A SUCESSFUL TEMPORARY PERIOD, IMMEDIATE START, 28 DAYS LEAVE, PENSION, PARKING

Our client is a design and manufacturer of high-quality plastic injection Mould Tools for the POS and luxury brands industry based within Loughborough. They are currently looking for a Mould Toolmaker-Cad/Cam Engineer to join the production team.

You will be highly skilled in the use of CNC Milling machinery, proficient programmer of Autodesk-Power mill and use Rhino 3D Cad software or Solid works/Fusion 360, with an ability to produce accurate and efficient NC toolpaths. Reporting to the Tooling Director you take responsibility for full hands-on manufacturing of moulds by use of manual Milling/Turning/Grinding machines, along with traditional hand fitting/bench skills

Duties of the Tool Maker:

  • Utilise the machinery for Turning, Drilling, Grinding.
  • Operate manual milling & grinding machines also ZNC Spark erosion machinery.
  • Mould assembly fitting, polishing & lifting and tool building.
  • CNC machine setter operator producing Power mill, programmes for mould Cavities, inserts electrodes and bolster plates using PC Cad Cam equipment.
  • Carry out quality checks for machined parts to ensure conformity to the specifications and mould standards using CMM machine with Renishaw probe.
  • Use 3d CAD software to interrogate mould drawings for the manufacture of mould tooling.
  • Produce 3d models for machining mould plates and electrodes with Cad software.

Requirements Needed:

  • City & Guilds or HNC in Mechanical Engineering
  • City & Guilds CNC Programming (parts 1&2)
  • Minimum of 3 years, experience in tool making or Tool Design
  • 2D/3D computer software experience
  • Minimum 2 years NC programming experience

Location: Loughborough

Salary: £30000 - £33446 per annum

Benefits: 28 days leave, pension, parking, Overtime and double time

Hours: Monday to Thursday 08.30- 4.30, Friday 08.30 - 4.00 (40 hours per week)

Should you have the skills and abilities of this Tool Maker please apply or send your cv to kirstin.sutherland@travail.co.uk

Travail Employment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.