Position: Toolmaker
Location: Wokingham or Oldham
Contract: Permanent, Full Time

Job Overview

An exciting position has become available for a full-time experienced press Toolmaker based in Wokingham, to work in a small friendly Toolroom within a high security manufacturing company. Position requirements will be the manufacture of form and cutting tools, jigs, and fixings to support production.

Our Toolroom has a mixture of manual and CNC machines including wire erosion.

All new tooling has fully dimensioned drawings to work from, however the ability to understand tooling functionality is essential.

So, what would you be doing?

• Working to engineering drawings, precise tolerances and operating a range of manual and CNC machinery.
• Repair and maintain press tools.
• Routine servicing and regrinding tools.
• Verifies conformance of machined and /or repaired tools to specifications by checking dimensions/clearances/alignments.
• Report breakdown root causes, equipment faults and concerns to management.
• Ensure all work is undertaken to a high-quality standard and adheres to all quality standard regulations.
• Ensures all tooling is safe and production ready at the time returned for production use, following correct preventative maintenance (PM) process.

Essential skills – Tools & Technology

• Experienced in the use of hand tool skills.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings.
• Experience in working with Toolroom machinery and equipment milling machine, lathe, surface grinder, etc.

Desirable Skills

• Practical hands-on approach to problem solving.
• Possess strong communication skills
• Able to manage and prioritise multiple skills.

The Ideal candidate:

• Due to workload and machine capacity the Toolroom works as a team so you may not start and finish the same job, a flexible attitude to work is important along with the ability to work unsupervised.

Benefits:

• Permanent position
• 25 days annual holiday entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Employer contributed pension scheme
• Competitive salaries for a 37.5-hour week
• Excellent overtime rates
• Sage employee benefits including discounts across a range of retailers, restaurants, gym, and cinema as well as 24 x7 online GP and Confidential Employee Assistance programme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Progression & development opportunities
• On-site parking
• Friendly environment in a family run business

We encourage applications from all individuals to consider our business as an employer. We value the unique perspectives and experiences that a diverse team brings and are dedicated to providing an inclusive recruitment process for all applicants.

If you’re the ideal candidate, please send your CV with the role you are applying for to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.