Injection Mould Toolmaker

Salary: GBP30K - GBP35k

Job Title: Injection Mould Toolmaker

Reporting to: Toolroom Supervisor

Hours of work: Monday to Thursday 7:30am to 4:00pm Friday 7:30 to 3:00pm

We are currently looking for an experienced Toolmaker to join a leading tier one automotive supplier based in Huddersfield. This is a fantastic opportunity to further develop your tooling disciplines and brilliant career progression through the toolroom.

To be considered for the role you must have experience working within a manufacturing environment and be time served.

General Description:

Responsible for making or improving different types of mould tools to enable the production processes within a manufacturing facility to be as efficient as possible.
This may include jigs, fixtures, clamps, or moulds to obtain a more robust consistently produced part that meets the specification of the customer.

Key duties include but are not limited to:

Responsible for all aspects of in-house tool manufacturing, maintenance, development, and testing activities to ensure the business objectives are met, to maximise productivity and maintain the highest levels of workmanship for all tooling activities. Lead and co-ordinate resources within the Tool room to ensure all tooling are produced.
Efficiently, on time and in line with quality standards ensuring that Health, Safety and Environmental requirements are adhered to.
Implement and maintain a production planning system.
Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice tool room vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
Identify business improvement opportunities within the organization.
Contribute to new business initiatives and projects and review and communicate the impact on Tool Room activities General and Task Management.
Provide specialist technical advice and support on all aspects of Tool design, manufacturing and estimating.
Support production and engineering with tooling/technical problems.
Have the potential to supervise/manage the running and plan activities of the tool room facilities and toolmakers, ensuring the tool room is a safe environment in line with health, safety, and environmental requirements.
Supports Production and Engineering to manage and guarantee on time availability of tools to ensure continuous production and increase of OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness).
Develop and manage procedural arrangements whereby proposals on new equipment or tool design can be assessed for their impact in performance terms.
Maximise the use of all resources, including IT and database maintenance for tracking all tools, implementing a planned schedule of maintenance and repair activity to ensure a computerised log is kept on faults and service history of tools.
Implement storage of tools to facilitate highest standards within the department for good housekeeping, health, safety and environmental.
Ensure all stock items, tool inserts and spares are organized.
Oversee all work through the tool room efficiently and cost effectively and ensure that all target dates for tooling are met.
Manufacture new tools from technical drawings to a high level of workmanship and in an efficient, cost effective manner.
Provide quotations for new tooling, modifications, and repairs.
CAD and CNC programming will be required.
Attend various meetings and action/communicate instructions.
Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems.
Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the tool room products, materials and advise others of any impact.
Ensure that the function operates in accordance with any health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of staff and visitors People Management.
Monitor the completion of tasks and ensure good performance and record appropriate systems.
Consistently promote high standards through personal example and roll out through the team so that each member of the team understands the standards and behaviours expected of them.
Manage contractors on site to ensure they meet legal and company requirements.
Input and hold responsibility for Tool Room budgets.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance.
Work collaboratively, negotiate, and engage with key stakeholders to facilitate delivery and compliance with the tooling strategy.
Communicate with stakeholders the impact of market change and potential effects on engineering design and development.
Recommend solutions without compromising quality or service while optimising cost.
Liaise and communicate with other departments, customers, suppliers and other service providers.
Ensure an effective interface with other departmental staff is maintained.
Work as part of the Tool Room team, share ideas and improve operation, recommending, supporting, and implementing continuous improvement activities and process and procedure improvements to optimise results and improve quality of delivery, in line with quality standards requirements delivery in line with Company and Customer requirements.
Identify and deploy the technical skill sets, resource levels and systems to deliver projects including the engagement of external resources as required.
Attend training courses linked to the Company and continuous development.
Complete safety training and certifications as required.
Ensure uniform, personal appearance and hygiene are clean and professional, maintain confidentiality of proprietary information, and protect company assets.
Perform other reasonable job duties as requested.
Behave in line with Company Values.Employee Benifits:

29 days holiday encluding bank holidays, this does increase one day every year to a maxium of 34 days
A company pension and bonus scheme are offered, details of these will be provided at interview
Company health scheme, more information will be provided in the interview process