Tooling V

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Work from Complicated blue prints, work orders, sketches or instructions.
• Disassemble, clean and reassemble tooling, jigs, fixtures, etc.
• Disassemble troubleshooting tooling, quality issues.
• Ability to weld all types tooling steel & repair machines as required.
• Ability to make complicated details and fixtures from examples.
• Ability to make best practice calls on complicated tool repairs.
• Acquire any additional skill to set up and operate tool room equipment such as a lathe, mill, surface grinder, drill press, EDM sinker & wire etc., used to perform the required work.
• Follow all safety rules and keep the work area in a clean and orderly condition.
• Ability to repair damaged or broken details and or make new as required.
• Ability to operate presses for tooling adjustments & required repairs.

Qualifications

• Completed required apprenticeship schooling.
• Strong understanding of safety procedures around Stamping equipment & large tooling.
• Strong understanding of reading material strips to troubleshoot die conditions & diagnose required repairs needed.
• Strong understanding of stamping die design & operation.
• Experience in automotive tooling.
• Experience in the automotive production environment.

Core Competencies

• Able to diagnose and repair all types of tooling that Hi-lex runs.

Physical Requirements

• Lift dies with assistance of an overhead crane.
• Factory environment with noise from the manufacturing environment.
• Exposure to moving equipment parts, electrical shock, and also exposed to possible burns from hot die castings.
• Possible serious injury due to carelessness around equipment (Lathe, Mill, Surface Grinder, Drill Press, etc.).
• Occasionally lift, carry, or move objects weighing more than 50 pounds.
• Regularly lift, carry or move objects weighing more than 25 pounds.

Other Requirements

• Covers for vacations or absenteeism of operators on different shifts.
• Uses hand tools, cranes, grinders, calipers and gauges.
• May use power industrial trucks, and hand pallet jack.
• Interacts with manufacturing on potential quality problems & determines appropriate counter measures.
• Able to handle multiple tasks in a high volume work environment.