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Thermo Fisher Scientific

Makes lab instruments, reagents and supplies

Senior Toolmaker

Precision Machining & ToolmakingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNewport, UKNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Minimum of five GCSE grades A–C.
  • Recognized engineering apprenticeship and formal indentured apprenticeship.
  • Formal engineering qualification.
  • Engineering or technical background.
  • Five years of experience in a similar role, with knowledge of mould tools.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and repair injection mould tools, blow moulding tooling, and injection stretch blow moulding tooling through planned maintenance and breakdown repairs.
  • Provide machine-shop support to site engineering and production functions, and develop onsite spares and tooling to support manufacturing and production needs.
  • Repair and service moulds, tooling, jigs, fixtures, and extruder parts to meet production requirements and standards.
  • Manufacture spare parts to drawings or by measuring existing parts and reproducing them to the same standard.
  • Polish bought-in parts and moulds to meet required product quality standards.
  • Maintain equipment in a safe and reliable condition.
  • Carry out and record allocated periodic planned preventative maintenance checks for which the employee is competent.
  • Carry out or organize core and insert changes as required.
  • Keep the workplace clean and tidy.
  • Ensure manufacturing conforms to technical and quality specifications in line with the company’s ISO 9000 quality systems.
  • Comply with company health and safety policies.
  • Support the lean manufacturing programme in conjunction with the PPI team.
  • Work as part of cross-functional teams and support teamwork across job functions.
  • Perform CNC machining.
  • Provide guidance to new starter toolmakers and apprentices on toolroom practices and procedures.
  • Cover morning meetings only when the toolroom manager is absent.
  • Update the planning meeting file and attend the weekly planning meeting only when the toolroom manager is absent.
  • Serve as the point of contact on shift for tooling-related concerns or advice when the toolroom manager is unavailable.
  • Provide training on onsite planned preventative maintenance of moulds.
  • Train new starter toolmakers and apprentices in mould hot runner analysis.
  • Provide training assistance on high-end finishing of mould cavities and cores.
  • Host suppliers in the absence of the toolroom manager.

About the Company

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Makes lab instruments, reagents and supplies

Thermo Fisher Scientific makes and sells the instruments, chemicals, consumables and lab services that drug companies, hospitals, universities and industrial labs use for research, testing and production. Its products cover work from gene sequencing and protein analysis to diagnostic tests and lab freezers, and its distribution arm ships supplies to labs worldwide. Drug developers also hire it to run clinical trials and to manufacture medicines under contract. It earns money from consumables that labs buy again and again, along with instrument sales, service contracts and outsourcing fees. The company traces its roots to Thermo Electron, founded in 1956, which merged with Fisher Scientific in 2006, and it is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Waltham, MA
Founded
1956

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