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Toolmaker

Toolmaker

Streamline Search • Worthing, West Sussex, England
30+ days ago
Salary
£50,000.00–£60,000.00 yearly
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Toolmaker

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 DOE

Monday - Thursday: 7:30am - 4:30pm

Friday: 7:30am - 1:00pm

Flexible working hours available where required

Holiday - 20 days per year plus bank holidays

Performance-related Christmas bonus scheme linked to annual company turnover

Role Overview

A well-established manufacturing business is seeking an experienced Toolmaker to join their engineering team. This is a hands-on role within a busy production environment, responsible for the manufacture, repair, and maintenance of press tools, jigs, and fixtures used in day-to-day operations. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring tooling reliability, reducing downtime, and supporting efficient production output across the site.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manufacture, assemble, and repair press tools, jigs, and fixtures used in production.
  • Strip down, inspect, fault-find, and rebuild tooling to restore full functionality.
  • Carry out preventative and reactive maintenance on press tools to minimise downtime.
  • Work from engineering drawings to produce precision toolroom components.
  • Set and operate manual milling, turning, and grinding machines.
  • Perform bench fitting, hand finishing, and assembly to tight tolerances.
  • Carry out tool trials, adjustments, and modifications to ensure correct performance.
  • Use precision measuring equipment to inspect tooling and components.
  • Support production teams by responding quickly to tooling breakdowns and issues.
  • Ensure all tooling meets safety, quality, and production standards.
  • Maintain high standards of housekeeping and workshop organisation.

Skills & Experience Required

  • Proven experience as a Toolmaker in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
  • Strong experience with press tools, jigs, fixtures, or similar tooling.
  • Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings.
  • Experience with manual machining (milling, turning, grinding).
  • Strong bench fitting and precision assembly skills.
  • Competent using measuring equipment (micrometres, verniers, gauges).
  • Strong fault-finding and problem-solving ability.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Desirable Experience

  • Press tooling experience in a production or high-volume environment.
  • Background in maintenance toolroom or production engineering support.
  • CNC machining experience (advantageous but not essential).
  • Experience in fast-paced manufacturing environments.

Streamline Search is a technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the United Kingdom. We are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy, and in accordance with GDPR by applying to this post you are granting us consent to process your data and contact you in relation to this application.


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