Toolmaker

Toolmaker Redditch £50,000 £55,000 DOE

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What is a press toolmaker? A toolmaker is a highly skilled engineering craftsperson who designs, builds, maintains, and repairs the precision tools, dies, moulds, jigs, and fixtures used to manufacture parts and products.
You will work alongside an experienced Tool Room team, including a Tool Room Manager with deep institutional knowledge of the business and its tools. The role spans new tool build, ongoing maintenance, breakdown support to production and continuous improvement of the tool estate. If you are a time-served tool maker who wants a role with real variety and a business that values the trade, this is it.
Whats on offer to the toolmaker: Upto £55000 basic salary
Overtime arrangements
Pension
28 days annual leave
Supportive team function
Career progression
Key responsibilities of the toolmaker: Building new press tools from approved drawings and specifications — working to tight tolerances, using conventional and CNC machining, grinding and EDM/wire erosion equipment.
Maintaining the active tool estate — carrying out planned maintenance, wear assessment, refurbishment and rebuild work to keep 500+ tools performing to standard.
Supporting press-side breakdown activity — attending machine-side when tooling issues arise, diagnosing faults and returning tools to service quickly and correctly.
Commissioning new tools through first-off trials and supporting PPAP and first article inspection submissions.
Working to engineering drawings, tool specifications and inspection standards without close supervision — managing your own workload and communicating progress clearly to the Tool Room Manager.
Supporting and mentoring apprentice tool makers, sharing your knowledge and setting a high standard.
Skills needed to be considered for toolmaker: Time-served toolmaker — recognised apprenticeship or equivalent trade qualification in tool making, tooling engineering or a closely related discipline.
Demonstrable experience in press tool making — building, fitting and maintaining progressive, blanking, forming or compound tools.
Competent on conventional machining — milling, turning, surface grinding, jig boring — and able to work to the tolerances precision press tooling demands.
Able to read and work from engineering drawings, tool specifications and inspection plans without assistance.
Self-managing, accurate and reliable — able to prioritise your own workload and work without close supervision for the majority of the day.
Clear communicator — able to give a straight answer to the Tool Room Manager or production team on tool status and return-to-service timelines. xrexnqw
If the role of toolmaker excites you and wish to explore further - apply today and a member of the hiring team will review within 24 hours.