Tool Maintenance Technician

Job Summary

Provides support to maintenance and/or machining depending on schedule requirements. Individual will participate in preventative maintenance and tool repair with multiple responsibilities of servicing injection units, providing assistance to machining, and general labor. Perform mechanical disassembly, troubleshoot, cleaning, assembly, drilling, tapping, grinding, preventative maintenance, and general labor. May work with engineering to resolve problems and participate in continuous improvement. Refers unusual situations to working leader/supervisor.

Job Responsibilities

• Trouble shoot, disassemble, clean, repair, assemble, and test injection units.
• Monitor status and inventory of injection units by communicating with technicians on a daily basis.
• Layout, drill, tap, replace inserts, deburr, polish, and assist floor technicians in resolving minor tooling difficulties.
• Maintain a clean and organized work environment in full compliance with internal, customer, and government regulations.
• Works in support of maintaining the manufacturing schedule as directed by working leader/ supervisor.
• Responsible for completing assigned preventative maintenance duties as assigned by working leader/supervisor.
• Performs all duties, tasks, and responsibilities, as requested, efficiently.
• Perform repair, refurbishment or cleaning tasks with metal and/or composite tools or fixtures.
• Perform leak detection checks, welding, riveting, brazing, sanding, grinding, and other related hand tool operations to repair and/or incorporate minor engineering changes to tooling.
• Utilize hand tools such as drills, routers, riveters, and sanders to perform tool repair or refurbishment tasks.
• Check all work to assure quality standards and tool repair procedures are maintained.
• Coordinate all change activity related to production tooling.
• Coordinate release of tools for rework at suppliers.
• Track tool location and verify required information.
• Establish and maintain production engineering tooling processes.
• Estimate and evaluate producibility of tools.
• Create statement of work for tools being fabricated at suppliers.
• Comply with the GKN Compliance and Ethics Policy on Contracting with the United States Government in all areas of responsibility involving direct and indirect contracting with the United States Government. 
• Comply with the Company's Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Policies and to provide fair and equitable treatment for all employees while ensuring optimum productivity and resource utilization.
• Performs other duties, tasks and responsibilities as assigned.

Job Qualifications

Education:

• High School diploma or equivalent plus 2-4 years direct or related on-the-job experience.

Essential:

•  MUST BE A U.S Citizen.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and problem solving skills.
• Basic math, blueprint reading, and good mechanical aptitude.
• Must be willing and able to work in a team oriented production environment with concerns for meeting cost, quality, and schedule requirements.
• Must display a positive, cooperative, and proactive attitude. 
• Must be willing and able to work as a team player as well as independently is required.
• Three (3) to five (5) years composite manufacturing work experience is required.
• Work experience or training performing tasks that involve the use of hand tools or welding and brazing functions is desired.
• The ability to work independently and follow detailed work instructions is required.

• Physical requirements or other local role requirements

  • Specific Vision abilities required; including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus with a specific requirement for corrected vision at 20/25 or better;
  • Must be able to work in a production environment and travel throughout the facilities and corporation to obtain information needed to perform job functions;
  • Moderate physical effort required when lifting material or tooling.
    • Employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 25 lbs., using proper lifting techniques.