Toolmaker/Machinist

Toolmaker - Airbus, Broughton

Double Day shift - 3 positions available - £36,181pa + 20% shift uplift = (£43,417pa)

Must hold an apprenticeship or equivalent, and an NVQ level 3 to be considered.

The Plant Production Support business requires a replacement for Toolmakers and Machinists. The role will be to support production areas within the Wing Box Assembly Plant at Broughton. The position involves reactively maintaining tooling in order to keep production running, but more importantly proactively maintaining critical path tooling and specific features of the jigs to enable production to maintain their build cycle using predefined Planned Preventive Maintenance schedules, or the position could involve reactively producing tooling in order to keep production running, manufacturing concession tooling, producing trial tooling and general Tool Room machining activities.

Role requirements

This is a highly customer focused role and the candidate must excel at this wherever they are deployed. This will enable the Toolmaker to naturally integrate into the business and fully understand the build cycle to successfully carry out PPM activities and reactive repairs to cause minimum disruption to production cycle times. There is also a necessity to quickly familiarise themselves with the tooling, training will be given, to support any issues that might arise. It is also important that the applicant can work with minimum supervision and under their own esteem. For the machining element of the role : The applicant must be able to integrate into an established Team of machinists. The role requires somebody who can work fluently and can switch from task to task and use a wide variety of Tool Room machinery. It is also a requirement to be a good communicator and offer advice and guidance to the Customers and Engineers that you deal with on a daily basis.

Qualifications and experience

• Time served with a Tool Making, Fitter Machinist or Machining background qualified to NVQ Level 3 or above.
• Minimum 3 years post apprenticeship experience
• Familiar with Aircraft Tooling would be an advantage but not essential
• Able to work Safely and follow any appropriate documentation accordingly
• Familiar with Tool Room machines such as lathes, millers, various grinding machines and jig borers.
• Used to working to tight tolerances at pace.
• Familiar with Aircraft component machining would be an advantage but not essential
• Show excellent communication skills and be customer focused
• Be able to integrate into an established team and show good team working skills

Guidant Global (BH4SF) is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.