Press Toolmaker

Location

Gillingham, Kent | United Kingdom

Job description

Press Toolmaker - Up to £42,000 per annum plus excellent benefits. Permanent position based inGillingham, Kent - Days role (early finish on Friday) - 33 days holiday, Pension, Employee welfare schemes, Onsite Parking

We have an excellent opportunity for a Press Toolmaker to join our established and renowned manufacturing client, based in Gillingham, Kent. Working as part of a well established production team, the ideal candidate will be a time served apprentice, with experience of tool making from a Press Tool background with a good understanding of CNC lathes and manual machinery.

Toolmaker Duties:

• Maintaining existing press tools as well as research and development of new press tools, scrap savings and development of improvements on existing press tools
• Draughting and/or understand technical drawings and relay this to the Design Engineer.
• Able to work on development of new press tools - working on new products and testing them
• The Toolmaker will be working with conventional lathes and tools day to day making adjustments and improvements utilising lathes, milling machinery
• Work closely with the Design Engineer and work on improvements to current and new products

Toolmaker Experience:

• Press Tool Maker working with metal and steel forms and understand different grades of steel i.e. stainless steel thickness's and alloys.
• You will be a traditional time served apprentice trained Toolmaker or Mechanical Engineer
• The company would consider someone with mould tool experience looking to gain experience of tooling of press tools.
• Used to working to precision tolerances
• Working to ISO9001 standards.

Benefits

• Pension
• 33 days holiday
• Employee welfare schemes
• Canteen
• Early finish on Friday
• On site parking

In return you will be joining a renowned engineering organisation, who are a market leader within their industry and offer a fantastic working environment.

To hear more about this opportunity, please send your CV to [email protected]

Travail Employment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Job tags

Salary

£40k - £42k per annum