What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tool & Die Maker position at Ice Industries Inc.?
Job Title: Tool and Die Maker
Location: Ice Industries Grenada
635 Highway 332
Grenada, MS 38901
General Function: To build, repair and maintain dies, tooling, and fixtures to support production
Job Duties:
- 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.
- Other job duties and projects as assigned
Working Conditions:
- Plant environment with seasonal changes in temperature and humidity
- Must be 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.
Education & Experience:
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, along with experience on large deep drawn stamping dies and be self-motivated. Experience with resistance welding is a plus.
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, along with experience on large deep drawn stamping dies and be self-motivated. Experience with resistance welding is a plus.
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, and tape measures.
- 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
- Proper operation of hoists and cranes Able to load and feed steel and material into dies.
- Knowledge of how to adjust for steel/material alignment in dies. Perform re-set ups and die changeovers
- Proper use of OD & ID Micrometers, Calipers, Height Gages, Thread Gages, and Dial Indicators.
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