Tooling Engineer

LEAD INFORMATION     
Job Title – Tooling Engineer
Site location – St Helens
Responsible to – Production Director     
Purpose of the role – Responsible for the tooling and mechanical engineering of our clients mouldings mill. Assisting the workshop and the production floor with repairs. As well as monitoring and creating a preventative maintenance plan.     
Client brief – Our client is one of the largest independent wooden mouldings manufacturers in the UK supplying independent and national merchant customers across the UK. Multimillion pound investments in new machinery in recent years with a strong fucus on growth and the development of innovative design ideas.
 
KEY INFORMATION     
 
Reason for vacancy – Increased demand
Contract – Permanent
Salary - £30,000 - £35,000
Shifts – Monday to Friday only, 8am-5.30pm
Holidays – 28 days Inc Bank Holidays
Facilities – Fantastic facilities on site inclusive of onsite parking, all kitchen facilities, very well kept site       
 
RESPONSIBILITIES     
 
The role - Our client is looking for a Tooling Engineer to join their operation at their wood mill Production facility based in St Helens. As a Tooling Engineer, the responsibilities are varied but not limited to –

• Plan and organise maintenance of tooling and equipment, analysing and reporting on production processes, methods, schedules, downtime, cycle times, availability of machines and waste management and improve current operations wherever possible.
• Organise planned startup and shutdown schedules to ensure minimum loss of production time and profits.
• Assess and repair mechanical or electrical failures.
• Accurately document engineering processes, parts used and discards repairs done, and the cause of each failure Recorded.
• Keep engineering tools such as manual soft protocols, parts and work tools up-to-date.
• Communicate with the leadership team about work time, fault, repairs, and downtime working to minimize customer wait time and maximize solution efficiency.
• Create and monitor repair schedules, perform routine maintenance and preventative repairs on existing systems.
• Actively build relationship with third party companies and engineers who attend site.

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED 

• Proven experience as a Tooling / Mechanical engineer with 2 years+ working in manufacturing.
• Extensive knowledge of fault finding and has a proactive approach. Exceptional technical and problem solving skills.
• The ability to work independently and to collaborate with others.
• Be comfortable working in a manufacturing environment that sometimes can be hot or cold.
• Understand the importance of health and safety.