Machinist/ Toolmaker

Machinist/ Toolmaker

Job description

A dynamic and growing engineering solutions business in Croydon seeks an enthusiastic and experienced Machinist/ Toolmaker.

Do you have experience of producing tooling for a press shop and machine shop tool room environment?

Are you looking for a day based role in a well-established company with great staff retention?

As a sub contract manufacturing company you will be working with special metal based products in a business that is well known for producing high quality, challenging parts throughout the industry. We've been running for over 80 years and are going through a growth period with new contracts bringing new work.

In this role you will be producing tooling and engineering items for press machinery, metal spinning and other machining centres. You'll also be required to maintain existing press tooling and use your skills to machine small batches of production parts.

The ideal person will be a toolmaker with experience of CAD-CAM, CNC Lathes and mills and experience of manual machining.

The Role:
- Designing and coordinating tooling work
- Making and preparing tooling for production

- Maintaining existing tooling

- Machining production jobs

The Person:
- Experience of toolmaking
- CAD-CAM experience on CNC lathes and mills
- Press Tooling experience

- Problems solver
- Flexible approach to work

Required skills:

General workshop experience, planning, apprenticeship, turning, milling, Toolmaker, Tooling, costing, time served, press tooling, CAD-CAM, heat treating.

For this position we offer a competitive salary of £25K - £27K depending on experience

39 hrs

Mon - Thur 8am - 5pm

Fri - 8am - 1pm