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Tool and Die Maker

West Bridgewater, MA

Posted: 03/21/2025 Industry: Manufacturing Operations Job Number: 17568

Job Description

Connexion’s mission is to provide "best in class" services to job seekers. We strive to achieve excellence in job placement, staffing, and recruiting services, while treating candidates with the professionalism and respect they deserve.

Title: Tool and Die Maker
Hiring Organization: Connexion Systems & Engineering

Compensation, Benefits, and Employment Type
  • Duration: Direct Hire
  • Pay rate: $28/hr. flexible depending on experience
  • Job Location: West Bridgewater
  • Schedule: 1st Shift M-F 6am-2:30pm
  • Job#: bh17568

Description
The successful candidate must be able to multitask in a diversified work environment, should have a minimum of 5 years’ experience of ‘hands-on’ injection mold maintenance and similar experience dealing in plastic polymers.



Qualifications required:
  • Must have a minimum of 5 years in a manufacturing environment
  • Must have the ability to use tool room equipment such as grinders and mills
  • Must be capable of working on molds and making tight tolerances parts
  • Must be able to comprehend part and tool prints
  • Injection molds dis-assemble/assembly and perform general mold maintenance
  • Self-motivated, good organizational skills, team player
  • Must be able to follow safety guidelines on the production floor
  • Troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair tooling problems on the production floor, identify and implement tooling improvements
  • 5+ years’ hands-on work experience in Injection Molding
  • Die maker or machinist certificate
  • Continuous Improvement experience within a manufacturing environment, preferably in an ISO 9001:2008 certified company

Essential functions and responsibilities:
  • Perform problem-solving to develop corrective actions for customer issues or to initiate continuous improvement
  • Repairs and re-builds injection molds by arranging for welding and rework, machining, polishing and finishing to required surface finish
  • Fits and assembles parts and tests completed molds for proper operation
  • Verifies conformance of repaired injection molds or related tooling to specification by checking dimension, clearances and alignments using various test equipment, consistently working to close tolerances
  • Able to read and understand mold drawings * Recommend mold design changes
  • Keep inventory of spare parts at an appropriate level and well organized
  • Operates a variety of machine tools, such as drill press, surface grinder to prescribe dimension and surface finish. May cut, mill, grind or otherwise repair work piece to prescribed dimension and finish
  • Operates crane to remove and/or relocate molds to specific workstations/areas
  • Have a valid Forklift license
  • Provides general maintenance and cleanup of all Tool room equipment
  • Participates in Continuous Improvement and assists in its implementation on an on-going basis
  • Proficient in written and verbal communication skills
  • Coordinate tooling and equipment availability, repair and maintenance
  • Respond to problems by performing corrective technical or mechanical solutions
  • Maintain positive employee relations and adhere to Company policies, safety standards, and good housekeeping practices
  • Coordinate with outside vendors regarding maintenance and repair for tooling and equipment
  • Implement and manage all maintenance functions, including but not limited to preventive, corrective and emergency maintenance on all injection molding equipment
  • Maintains product safety, legality, regulatory compliance and quality systems
  • Report on any potential food safety, legality, quality, or food defense concerns to the plant manager or quality personnel
  • Follow all documented Good Manufacturing Practices
  • Must follow all company policies and procedures

Success factors/job competencies:
  • Team player
  • Problem solving skills
  • Ability to manage projects and follow through

Physical demands and work environment:
Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls: reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear. Employees must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Work environment: While performing the duties of this job the employee is/or may be exposed to high noise levels that require hearing protection. Employees may also be required to wear safety glasses and/or safety gloves.



Performance standards:
  • 30,60,90-day Assessment
  • Annual performance appraisal

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Meet Your Recruiter

Emily Donahue
Regional Recruiting Manager

  • Directthe recruitment efforts for both the Quincy, MA and Providence, RI branches. 
  • Manages a distributed team of recruiting leads, individual contributor recruiters and account managers. 
  • Responsible for leading the fulfillment and execution of sourcing, recruiting, sales and business development practices across the region. 
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