Tool Maker

About the Role

Tool Maker

Belfast

Full time

Posted Today

JR10436424

**Job Description:**

**VACANCY: Tool Maker**

**GRADE: B08**

**LOCATION: Belfast, Tooling Engineering**

**RESPONSIBLE TO: Section Head, Tooling Engineering**

**PURPOSE OF THE JOB**

**To perform hands-on manufacture, maintenance, repair, modification, installation, and routine servicing of production tooling to ensure maximum operational efficiency and equipment availability that conform to engineering standards while adhering strictly to safety and quality standards.**

**PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES**
* **Carry out scheduled maintenance, tool repairs, periodic routines, and modifications on a diverse range of production tooling to engineering standards in line with delivery schedules.**
* **Diagnose and resolve complex tool engineering and mechanical issues on the shop floor, using a proactive, hands-on, troubleshooting approach.**
* **Support the installation, citing, and alignment of new and existing tooling systems across production facilities.**
* **Execute daily work assignments efficiently to meet schedule, cost, and quality targets set by the Tooling Team Leader.**
* **Conduct all tooling activities in full compliance with Health & Safety, Environmental legislation, Risk Assessments, and Safe Systems of Work.**
* **Support quality requirements by maintaining precise tool specifications and supporting the calibration/maintenance of related metrology equipment.**
* **Collaborate effectively with internal production, engineering, and quality teams to minimise operational downtime and maintain tool integrity.**
* **Engage in continuous improvement initiatives, proposing practical solutions to optimise tooling performance and workshop processes.**

**CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS**

**It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that sufficient detail is provided to demonstrate how they meet essential job criteria, as this alone will be used for vetting purposes.**

**Candidates must:**
* **Have completed a recognised mechanical engineering or toolmaking apprenticeship together with 3 years' proven post-apprenticeship hands-on tooling experience within a high-precision manufacturing context.**
* **Ability to read, interpret, and work from complex engineering drawings and technical documentation.**
* **Sound analytical and troubleshooting capabilities to diagnose and rectify mechanical and tooling faults.**
* **Solid working knowledge of Health & Safety standards, Risk Assessments, and safe systems of work in a manufacturing environment.**
* **Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively alongside Team Leaders, Quality Engineers, and Operations teams.**

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.

**Company:**
Airbus Belfast Limited

**Employment Type:**
Permanent

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**Experience Level:**
Professional

**Job Family:**
Manufacturing Engineering