Job Description

• Fully conversant with typical machine shop equipment, e.g: turning, milling, surface & cylindrical grinding, heat treatment/quenching, wire and spark eroding, welding.
• Experienced with working with a wide range of materials, e.g Tungsten Carbide, Brass, Steel, Stainless steel and some plastics.
• The ability to provide rapid response to breakdown where local manufacturing team require assistance
• The ability to read and work to design drawings involving precise tolerances in the manufacture of all types of final product gauges.
• Communicate to all levels across all shifts
• Ensuring lean and 5S practices are adhered to
• Undertake specialist project work to assist the manufacturing team
• Provide on the job training to apprentices or trainees as required.
• To process work through the toolroom in line with agreed priorities
• To ensure by inspection that incorrectly manufactured tooling (both outsourced and internally made) is not issued to production departments
• Capable of raising requisitions in an ERP system for steel, machine parts, spares etc
• Understanding of the Calibration system involving Tool gauges & measuring instruments in line with BSI standard practice requirements
• To demonstrate operation, controls and compliance of toolroom systems during internal and external audits