Tool and Die Technician

Main Responsibilities

• Perform preventative maintenance and repairs to plastic injection molds.
• Modify and repair molds, jigs and fixtures where accuracy requires maintenance of extremely close tolerances.
• Diagnose problems and determine corrective actions on injection molds.
• Ability to grind complex forms to very close tolerances.
• Ability to complete jobs quickly and efficiently with minimal errors.
• Maintain safe work area in neat and orderly manner.
• Accurately document work performed.

Job Requirements:

• Troubleshoot tool and die failures
• Take tool-die project from conception
• Make necessary tool and die tryouts
• Setting up machine tool or tools
• Perform tool room machining duties
• Replace parts of the dies and tooling equipment
• Returned dies and items leaving tool room
• Perform minor maintenance on die cast dies and machines
• Clean and maintain production extrusion die and tooling
• Perform difficult tool room machine operations
• Specified die sections into machine
• Perform full range of tool and die work, focusing on die maintenance
• Lead new tooling reviews with die buy off with corporate tooling design team
• Operate all tool room equipment expertly to repair/build quality fixtures and dies from tool blueprints and verbal instructions
• Design progressive die tooling and fixtures for welding, soldering and assembly
• Assemble new parts in tooling
• Ensure new tooling and tooling repairs and modifications
• Perform die repairs at the press and in the tool room
• Maintain inventory levels for tooling and die needs
• Assist in tool room duties