Tool Maintenance Technician

High Speed Stamping Tool Maintenance Technician - Landrum, SC

If you are one, then this is a one-of-a-kind opportunity!

• Team-oriented and high-integrity culture and environment where people are valued, and treated with respect
• Growth opportunity
• Competitive Base Salary and Performance Bonus opportunities plus benefits

This role requires someone comfortable with GD&T interpretation, measuring tools, optical measuring equipment, reading tool drawings, and asking key questions to provide solutions to die quality concerns.

Candidates will be measured on the following areas of Skill and Knowledge:

1. This role requires a person to have some knowledge of a tool and die maker yet interested in working in a die maintenance department.
2. It requires a very highly motivated person who is energetic and comfortable in a fast-paced environment. They should have a sense of urgency to move to the next challenge or task in the die department.
3. Manual surface grinding skills are important using mostly diamond wheels for carbide steel and sand wheels for tool steels such as D2 periodically.
4. This role requires the knowledge and experience of using tool room measuring devices. These include micrometers, calipers, indicators, depth gauges, and some optical comparators.
5. This role requires a high level of mechanical comprehension.
6. The person should be independent, confident, and have troubleshooting skills.
7. Experience in high-speed stamping press applications is preferred.
8. This position also covers a die runner role transporting dies to the presses, performing troubleshooting at the press, and transporting the die back to the die department if there are issues or corrections needed. This person will be directly involved at the stamping floor to ensure die quality requirements are met.
9. Strong collaboration skills are important with the ability to work in a team’s environment.
10. Independent forward thinking is necessary to anticipate future results.
11. Good questioning, listening, and discussion skills without feeling the need to hold information from other workers are necessary.
12. Natural preference to create an organized, neat, and clean work environment at workstations.
13. This role requires the candidate to be competent working with a computer and computer software and have good math skills.
14. The candidate needs to be flexible and calm about scheduling conflicts and priorities as variables change in the scheduling area.
15. The candidate must be committed to continuous improvement for the die department.
16. This role requires someone comfortable with GD&T interpretation both General and Geometric.