Die Maintenance Technician

Our client, a successful manufacturing business in the north east is looking to appoint a Die Maintenance Technician on a permanent basis.

Duties:

• Diagnose tooling problems at press call out and potential repair of the tool at press
• Carry out maintenance repairs and refurbishment activities on press tools
• Modifications and improvement activities on the press tools supporting customer production part approval process (PPAP) and/or parts submission warrant (PSW)
• Record / document die performance and quality concerns regarding the repair details on maintenance reports
• Support and maintain continuous improvements of 6S activities onsite to a high standard.
• Support quality with customer quality concerns, close out internal/external 8D's
• Tooling inventory to be monitored and replaced when necessary using company ordering system
• Support customer requirements where necessary
• Work to key performance indicators in the tooling department
• Must be prepared to work shifts and overtime
• Work load will be driven from objectives and tooling database recording tooling repairs and tooling preventative maintenance.

Person Specification:

• Organisation and Planning - Plans, organises, schedules for tooling PM's. Liaise with operations and planning to ensure key priorities are achieved within the set parameters.
• Communication - Speaks and writes clearly and articulately. Maintains this standard in all forms of written communications.
• Problem Solving skills - Exhibits a probing mind, asks questions and solve problems individually or as part of the tooling team seeking advice to resolve complex cases.
• Teamwork - Reaches out to peers and cooperates with managers at all levels within the business to establish an overall collaborative working relationship.
• Intelligence - Learn quickly. Demonstrates ability to quickly and proficiently understand and absorb new information.
• Attention to detail - follow up on key accountabilities to ensure all objectives are achieved.
• Proactivity - Acts without being told what to do. Brings new ideas to the company.
• Enthusiasm - wants to learn, improve own abilities to support the business direction

Experience Required:

• Stoning and polishing of tool steels to a high level of accuracy
• Operation of manual milling, drilling and lathes machines
• Experience using various hand tools for hand grinding and the use of precision measuring equipment
• Operation of surface grinding machines
• Knowledge of Tig, Arc and Mig welding
• Good IT skills using Microsoft packages Word, Excel, and Outlook
• This job role requires you to be qualified to Level 3 Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Knowledge) BTEC, VRQ minimum five years' experience.

This role is working a 2-shift pattern Monday-Friday 6am-2pm, & 2pm-10pm.

This role is being advertised by SG Personnel, who are acting as an employment business.