Senior Tool Maker

Company: Rieke LLCPrimary Location: 82oo Innovation Campus Way West, New Albany, OH 43054 USA

Employment Type: Hourly | Full-Time

Function: Manufacturing Production / Distribution

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 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.