Toolmaker in Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Toolmaker - Gloucester - Permanent - Double Day Shift - 37.5 per week Monday to Friday - c£40k - Interviewing ASAP

We have an excellent opportunity for a Toolmaker to join our manufacturing client, based in Gloucester. Our client are a prestigious leading organisation and a market leader within their industry - the ideal candidate will be a time served apprentice, with experience of tool making from a Press Tool or Mould Tool background.

Key Duties:

• You will be a traditional time served apprentice trained Toolmaker or Mechanical Engineer who has a good understanding of press tools, CNC, lathes and manual machinery.
• Able to draught and/or understand technical drawings and relay this to the Design Engineer.
• The successful Toolmaker will be required to work on maintaining existing press tools making improvements for scrap savings etc.
• Able to work on development of new press tools working on new products and to test and tool 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.

Experience:

• 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.

Our client offers a clean modern environment with the opportunities for progression and development.

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

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