Job Description
Senior Tool Maker
Company: Rieke LLC
Primary Location: 82oo Innovation Campus Way West, New Albany, OH 43054 USA
Employment Type: Hourly | Full-Time
Function: Manufacturing Production / Distribution
Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Position Summary:
The
Toolmaker uses best practices and methods to maintain molding tools.
Researches, develops and implements improvements to tooling and equipment to
improve product quality. Works with plant engineer to identify problems with
performance. Recommends solutions or enhancements. Documents test and tooling
development activities in reports. Trains production assemblers on new or
modified tools. Reviews and repairs any quality issues relating to injection
mold tooling.
Primary Duties and
Responsibilities:
Ability to create high quality, tight
tolerance parts.
Provide
tooling solutions for plastic injection molding machinery within the
manufacturing facility.
Management
and procurement of spare tools.
Build detailed preventative maintenance
program for all injection mold tools.
Responsible for ensuring tooling in on
time and to budget ensuring they meet customer requirements managing
resources to achieve the desire output.
Ensure that the supplier delivers
quality documentation on product quality for build phases including
Initial Sample Inspection Report (ISIR), capability studies and surface
finish assessment for signoff,
Ensures confirmation of adherence to
Tooling Standards.
Manage and build new relationships with
internal and external stakeholders.
Responsible for evaluating technical
issues in order to develop proposals for investigations and/or solutions.
Keep up to date in relevant technical
areas; develop skills and capabilities and supply support and expertise
to others as required (including supporting the development of the new
appointed engineers as required)
Ensure that any changes to product
specification, project scope or deliverables requested by the customer
are identified and considered for their commercial and timing
implications and that they are communicated to the relevant Commercial
Manager before agreement and implementation ensuring uncontrolled creep
of project scope does not occur.
Ensuring the promotion of customer focus throughout the organization and in particular, your area of responsibility.
Ensuring that the integrity of the quality management system is maintained when changes to the quality management system are planned and implemented.
Ensuring that the processes are delivering their intended outputs.
Qualifications
Qualifications and
Skills:
Journeyman card and a high school diploma or
GED.
Experience
reading engineering drawings.
Minimum
of 5 years experience on the shop floor as highly skilled toolmaker for
multi cavity (32 to 64 cavity) injection mold tools.
Experience with hot runner
systems (32-64 cavity).
Excellent working knowledge of
problem solving and failure mode avoidance tools.
Knowledge of injection mold process/tooling.
Excellent analytical and problem solving
skills.
Knowledge of Solidworks.
Experience working in a fast moving
industry.
Knowledge and experience with CNC and
EDM.
