Toolmaker
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| Location: | St. Louis |
| Department: | Toolroom |
| Position: | Toolmaker |
| Job ID: | Toolmaker |
Overview
Monday – Friday 6am to 2:30pm.
Option to work 9 hour days and be off one day every other week.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions
- Study specifications such as blueprints, sketches, models, or descriptions, and visualize dies or molds to determine materials required and machines to be used to fabricate parts, and make recommendations to tool and part design for function and manufacturability.
- Diagnose and repair die in press or remove die to tool room for analysis.
- Operate welding equipment to produce precision tools.
- Compute dimensions, plan layout, and determine assembly method and sequence of operations.
- Examine standard or previously used dies, tools, and jigs and fixtures and recommend design modifications regarding construction and function of part.
- Remove defective parts and repair by smoothing flat and contoured surfaces using scrapers, abrasive stones, and power grinders, and fit and assemble parts together and into assemblies and mechanisms using hand tools or make drawing of part to be fabricated; insert repaired or new part and reassemble die.
- Set up and operate machine tools such as lathes, milling machine, EDM machine, and grinder to machine parts and verify conformance of machined parts to drawing or specification.
- Lift dies manually or use hoist and position and secure dies on surface of worktable using devices such as vises, V-blocks, and angle plates.
- Test and evaluate new and repaired molds.
- Train and assist maintenance employees and internal company personnel in machine shop methods and problem diagnosis.
- Update various drawings and records of mold maintenance activity, tool, die and mold dimensions, etc.
- Program, setup and operate at least one group of CNC equipment: EDM, lathes, and or vertical machining centers.
Skill Requirements
Education:
Requires a broad knowledge of tool making and machining technology, mechanical principles, advanced mathematics, layout and precision measuring procedures, equivalent to apprentice training or 2 years of college.
Experience:
Over five years of plastic injection mold experience and CNC experience
