Toolroom Engineer
| Posting date: | 05 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £19.94 to £21.99 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 January 2026 |
| Location: | Whitstable, Kent |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Senex Recruitment Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SEN6587 |
Summary
Toolroom Engineer – Precision Engineering | Whitstable | £19.94–£21.99 per hour
Are you an experienced Toolroom Engineer who takes pride in producing high-quality tooling and precision components? This is a great opportunity to join a well-established engineering manufacturer in Whitstable, supporting the production, improvement and maintenance of specialist tooling used across their product range.
You’ll be part of a small, skilled team, working Monday–Thursday 8-4:30 and Fridays 8–1:30, creating new tooling, refurbishing existing tools, and making small-batch piece parts for NPI, samples and testing. If you enjoy hands-on engineering, problem-solving, and working closely with design and manufacturing teams, you’ll feel right at home.
What you’ll be doing in this Toolroom Engineer job
Producing new and refurbished tooling for moulding and assembly processes
Developing and improving tooling to support efficient manufacture
Machining tooling and NPI piece parts to tight tolerances
Working closely with design, manufacturing and process engineers
Supporting process improvements and offering technical input
Following all Health & Safety procedures and quality instructions
What you’ll bring to this Tooling Engineer job
Ideally a qualification in Engineering or maybe a time-served apprenticeship in a toolmaking environment
Experience in a Toolroom environment working in a similar tooling Engineer, Technician or Toolmaker role
Strong experience in mould and assembly tool manufacture
Confident in machining: milling, turning, grinding, spark erosion or bench fitting
Ability to work from technical drawings, CAD models and verbal instructions
Knowledge of machining to exact tolerances and safe working practices
Desirable additional experience in EDM (wire, hole or spark erosion) CAD/CAM experience CNC milling and turning experience could be useful
Understanding of injection, transfer or compression moulding CNC or EDM programming
Able to work with small batch, prototyping or model shop work
Able to lead small technical projects
Why this job role?
This is an opportunity to use your craftsmanship and engineering knowledge in a supportive environment where quality matters. You’ll work on varied, interesting tooling projects and have opportunities to continue developing your skills.
To learn more about the role or to add a personal introduction to your application, contact Kevin McHugh at Senex Recruitment on 01424 211872.
Are you an experienced Toolroom Engineer who takes pride in producing high-quality tooling and precision components? This is a great opportunity to join a well-established engineering manufacturer in Whitstable, supporting the production, improvement and maintenance of specialist tooling used across their product range.
You’ll be part of a small, skilled team, working Monday–Thursday 8-4:30 and Fridays 8–1:30, creating new tooling, refurbishing existing tools, and making small-batch piece parts for NPI, samples and testing. If you enjoy hands-on engineering, problem-solving, and working closely with design and manufacturing teams, you’ll feel right at home.
What you’ll be doing in this Toolroom Engineer job
Producing new and refurbished tooling for moulding and assembly processes
Developing and improving tooling to support efficient manufacture
Machining tooling and NPI piece parts to tight tolerances
Working closely with design, manufacturing and process engineers
Supporting process improvements and offering technical input
Following all Health & Safety procedures and quality instructions
What you’ll bring to this Tooling Engineer job
Ideally a qualification in Engineering or maybe a time-served apprenticeship in a toolmaking environment
Experience in a Toolroom environment working in a similar tooling Engineer, Technician or Toolmaker role
Strong experience in mould and assembly tool manufacture
Confident in machining: milling, turning, grinding, spark erosion or bench fitting
Ability to work from technical drawings, CAD models and verbal instructions
Knowledge of machining to exact tolerances and safe working practices
Desirable additional experience in EDM (wire, hole or spark erosion) CAD/CAM experience CNC milling and turning experience could be useful
Understanding of injection, transfer or compression moulding CNC or EDM programming
Able to work with small batch, prototyping or model shop work
Able to lead small technical projects
Why this job role?
This is an opportunity to use your craftsmanship and engineering knowledge in a supportive environment where quality matters. You’ll work on varied, interesting tooling projects and have opportunities to continue developing your skills.
To learn more about the role or to add a personal introduction to your application, contact Kevin McHugh at Senex Recruitment on 01424 211872.