Tool & Die Maker

Build and/or repair all types, sizes, and shapes of jigs, fixtures, tools, and dies, and assemble and try out complex tools and dies on manufacturing equipment.

Requirements

• Plan and perform bench and machine operations necessary to construct, adjust, and repair tools, jigs, fixtures, and gauges with very complicated designs and very close tolerances.
• Set up and operate tools such as lathes, milling machines, shapers, and grinders to machine parts and verify conformance to specifications.
• Fits and assembles jigs, fixtures, tools, and dies, and sets up runs off and test dies to produce a product to specifications.
• Reads and interprets routine blueprints or works from verbal or written instructions for the part.
• Use hand tools of the trade.
• Perform difficult and exacting machine operations requiring a variety of setups and methods to maintain close tolerances.
• Make tool tryouts, detect faulty operation or defective material, and correct trouble.
• Assist in the training of Tool Room Apprentices.
• May assist Punch Press or Fourslide setup persons in Fourslide or Punch Press overhaul.
• May work with tool designers to provide input to manufacturing capability on newly formed parts.