The Tooling Maintenance Technician is responsible for maintaining, repairing, troubleshooting, and inspecting plastic injection molds and tooling to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient production. This position performs preventative maintenance, minor repairs, mold cleaning, dimensional inspections, tooling adjustments, and troubleshooting while helping minimize production downtime and maintain tooling quality.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Read, interpret, and follow tooling work orders, maintenance instructions, and technical documentation.
Safely and efficiently disassemble, inspect, repair, clean, and reassemble plastic injection molds and tooling.
Perform preventative maintenance and minor repairs on molds, tooling, and related equipment.
Assist Maintenance Technicians and other technical personnel with tooling and equipment repairs as needed.
Troubleshoot tooling issues and identify opportunities to improve mold performance, reliability, and production efficiency.
Respond to tooling issues on the production floor, including making repairs or adjustments while a mold is installed in a production press when required to minimize downtime.
Use precision measuring equipment, including micrometers, calipers, height gauges, bore micrometers, and other inspection tools.