Tool & Die Maker

Location: Ice Industries Grenada, 635 Highway 332, Grenada, MS 38901

About the role

Build, repair, and maintain dies, tooling, and fixtures to support production in a plant environment with seasonal temperature and humidity changes.

Responsibilities

• Builds and repairs machine shop tools using machining operations and measuring instruments.
• Works from blueprints and sketches to create or modify tools, dies, jigs, and molds.
• Build or repair equipment such as dies and die sections, utilizing blueprints, sketches, descriptions, templates, etc.
• Perform preventative maintenance checks on tools and equipment utilized in the Toolroom.
• Operates various machines such as lathes, milling machines, shapers, and grinders to machine parts.
• Keeps work area clean and uncluttered by removing scrap pieces from machinery, floors, and properly disposing of scrap.
• May be required to go to the area where the finished product is installed to observe or adjust the part or equipment as needed.
• Load and feed steel and material into dies; adjust for steel/material alignment in dies.
• Perform re-set ups and die changeovers.
• Other job duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, schematics, reference material, diagrams, or other manufacturer’s material related to the products to be machined.
• Familiar with machinery tools such as lathes, grinders, and milling machines.
• Good shop mathematics knowledge.
• Knowledge of various measuring instruments such as micrometers, height gauges, tape measures, OD & ID micrometers, calipers, height gages, thread gages, and dial indicators.
• Able to machine a product within correct tolerances and dimensions utilizing tooling equipment and proper procedures.
• Must be able to set up and operate all tool room equipment.
• Understand and work within all safety rules.
• Proper operation of forklift, hoists, and cranes.

Qualifications

• Must possess a Journeyman’s Tool and Die Maker’s card or certification of having completed a U.S. Department of Labor recognized apprenticeship as a Journeyman Tool and Die Maker, or have 8 years of proven experience working as a Tool and Die Maker in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience on large deep drawn stamping dies and self-motivated.
• Experience with resistance welding is a plus.

Working Conditions

• Capable of bending, stooping, crawling under or over, and frequent climbing stairs.
• Lifting, pushing, pulling, prying, and dragging heavy materials up to 50 pounds.
• Overtime is mandatory when business conditions require additional hours.