Tooling Technician

Job Overview

About the role

This position involves repairing and rebuilding production equipment, tooling, molds, and dies to improve their running condition. Duties also include assisting group leaders and lead personnel in planning work in the shop and sending work to outside vendors.

Responsibilities

• Repair and rebuild production machinery including molds and dies.
• Make components and changes to existing components in a timely manner and correct them to an engineered drawing.
• Absorb and assist the Group Leaders and Lead people in planning work in the shop and sending work to outside vendors.
• Ensure machines run efficiently while in production.
• Perform mold cleaning with necessary repairs.
• Analyze specifications, lay out metal stock, set up and operate machine tools, fit and assemble parts to make and repair dies, cutting tools, jigs, fixtures, gauges, and machinists' hand tools.
• Verify dimensions, alignments, and clearances of finished parts for conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments such as calipers, gauge blocks, micrometers, and dial indicators.
• Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
• Set up and operate conventional or computer numerically controlled machine tools such as lathes, milling machines, and grinders to cut, bore, grind, or otherwise shape parts to prescribed dimensions and finishes.
• Operate metal or plastic forming and grinding equipment.
• Absorb other departments where skills are needed.

Qualifications/Requirements

• High school education / GED equivalent.
• Must be a Certified Journeyman Tool Maker or willing to complete an apprenticeship program.

Physical Requirements

• Lift 75 pounds a minimum of 10 times per day and lift 50-75 lbs. over shoulder height occasionally.
• Occasionally climb on and off a forklift safely and without assistance.
• Hearing sufficiently to recognize and respond to shouted warnings, alarms, and horns on forklifts.
• Able to occasionally climb ladders safely and without assistance.
• Able to work at heights with fall protection when required.
• Verbal communication is adequate to use a radio and or paging system to contact other co-workers in other areas of the complex.
• Able to effectively manipulate tools/parts.
• Work overhead or in awkward positions on a frequent basis.
• Push/pull loads of approx. 75 lbs. at a minimum of 10 times per day/shift.
• Stand/walk for up to 12-hour shift.
• Must be able to perform all physical requirements of the position with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by the Amcor Way and demonstrate our values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when our people are engaged and develop as part of a high-performing Amcor team, our customers grow and prosper from Amcor's quality, service, and innovation, our investors benefit from Amcor's consistent growth and superior returns, and the environment is better off because of Amcor's leadership and products. Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that's transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world. At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people, and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine, and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It's our core value and integral to how we do business. Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives, and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an ever-changing world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities, and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click on the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal" Poster. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please call 224-313-7000 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Paid time off, starting at 40 hours per year for full-time hourly employees, may vary by location.
• Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location.
• Wellbeing programs & Employee Assistance Program.
• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account.
• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Retail Savings Plan with company match.
• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval).
• Discretionary bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date).