Job Description
### Become a Key Player as a Tool and Die Maker
You will use your hands-on machining and fabrication skills to build, repair, and maintain fixtures, molds, tools, and dies that keep production running. You will partner with the shop team and production stakeholders to ensure parts meet specifications and uptime goals. This is an onsite role in Erlanger, KY.
### Here's How You'll Make an Impact on the Team
- Use manual machining equipment to build fixtures and machine parts.
- Disassemble, repair, and reassemble molds, jigs, tools, and fixtures.
- Read and interpret blueprints and complex schematics to create and build new fixtures, tools, and parts.
- Inspect completed tools and dies for imperfections or damage that affect functionality.
- Perform drilling, tapping, deburring, welding, and fabrication to improve quality.
- Test and regularly maintain equipment, tools, and machines to ensure proper setup and efficiency.
- Modify machine parameters (speed, material feed, path of cut) to meet product specifications.
- Keep the shop and tools clean, organized, and safe; plan next steps in processes.
### Here's What You'll Need to Be Successful in This Role
- Proven experience as a Tool and Die Maker.
- Minimum 5 years in machining and alteration of tools, dies, jigs, and fixtures.
- Ability to read and draw basic prints and understand shop goals.
- Thorough knowledge of machine shop practices, machine tool operations, mechanics, and material properties.
- Demonstrated mechanical ability and strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Proficiency reading measuring tools: tape measure, scale, micrometer, calipers, height gauge.
- Understanding of mathematics, handbook formulas, and trigonometry.
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team and good communication skills.
### Here's What Else Might Help You Out
- Desire to continue learning and refining toolmaker skills on the job.
### Pay Range
$68,000 - $100,000/year
### Ready to Make Your Mark?
This role may fill quickly. Submit your resume to be considered.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Erlanger, KY |
| Industry | Other/Not Classified |
| Salary | $68,000–$100,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 1 to 9 employees |
About Company
NextDeavor offers a conscious approach to recruitment. We pride ourselves for our innovative selection and matching methods. Our core values are reflected in our culture; grounded in integrity, clarity, flexibility and cohesion. With this combination NextDeavor’s vision provides a collaborative solution to understanding talent and enriching human capital. Our approach brings a new dimension to the recruitment arena as organizations accurately match and select candidates based on their skills and cultural compatibility. While candidates are able to actively transition towards more engaging careers that fully utilize their skill set and allow for their professional development.
We are a forerunner in the recruitment world providing an algorithmically automated platform that simplifies the recruitment process while reducing overheads and increasing retention rates. With our specialized artificial intelligence platform, we are able to uncover new candidates, scaling the sourcing efforts of any talent acquisition team. NextDeavor matches technological advancements with meaningful candidate selection based on personality, job preferences and the ability for candidates to blend and enhance team dynamics.
The powerful dynamic of artificial intelligent technology interfaced with recruitment needs, means NextDeavor aligns talent, skills and culture seamlessly
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