Tool and Die Maker

Tool and Die Maker

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in repairing, maintaining, construction, and/or the inspection of tools, dies, jigs, powerfeed, etc.
• 5+ years of experience in machine shop processes, geometric dimensioning & tolerances, and machining capabilities of different types of materials.
• 2+ years of experience with hydraulics and pneumatics.
• 2+ years of experience using complete set of toolmaker shop equipment (milling, lathe, precision, grinding, polishing, and fitting).

Responsibilities

• Planning, laying out, fabricating, assembling, repairing, and maintaining tools.
• Performing all functions of tool fabrication, rework, and repair as required.
• Troubleshooting problems and developing plans to resolve production issues, including rebuilding and repairing hydraulic and vacuum fixtures.
• Determining the sequence of and coordinating tool fabrication work.
• Studying specifications such as blueprints, sketches, models, or descriptions to determine materials required and machines to be used for fabricating parts and molds.
• Developing plans for accomplishing work in fabrication, maintenance, and repair of tools as required.
• Using shop metrology equipment to reverse engineer.
• Coordinating planning or engineering change requests and routine maintenance work with other internal support groups.
• Fabricating and building various types of tooling with dies such as push-through, blanking, piercing, cut-off, forming, joggle, deep draw, and compound dies.
• Reading and interpreting information from planning documents, drawings, tool orders, blueprints, sketches, specifications, engineering orders, and quality assurance manuals to determine the methods and sequence of operations necessary to fabricate and assemble tools, molds, jigs, dies, and fixtures.
• Laying out details, dimensions, and tooling points of parts, tools, molds, jigs, dies, and fixtures using shop mathematics, geometry, and trigonometry.
• Setting up and operating hand tools and power machine tools.
• Fabricating, assembling, and inspecting a variety of molds, jigs, fixtures, tools, and dies to required configuration, dimensions, tolerances, and finish.
• Checking work in progress and completed parts using precision measuring devices.
• Recording manufacturing data and statistics manually or with the aid of a computer or computer-based system.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Tool & Die Maker.
• Completed an approved Mold Maker or Tool and Die Maker state apprenticeship program and/or certified by the U.S.
• Ability to perform machining operations with a specified degree of accuracy and within a timely manner, maintain close and exacting tolerances and finish requirements ensuring highest quality workmanship on all tools, gages, and fixtures with minimal scrap.
• Capable of creating a repeatable setup and working to tolerances of +/-.0002″ in controlled environment.
• Possesses 4 and 5 axis CNC skills for mill or lathe, and extensive knowledge of detail cutting tool geometry for different cutting tool types and materials.
• Ability to reverse engineer and manufacture mold components within time limitations.
• Ability to read and write G and M code with CAM programming experience.