Tooling Engineer

About the job

Job Title: Tooling Engineer

Location: Blackpool

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

About Us:

The Glasdon Group is a market leader in the design, marketing and supply of award winning environmental and safety products across the world, including street furniture, recycling units, road safety equipment, winter safety products, cycle shelters and modular buildings.

About the Role:

Are you looking for an exciting, challenging and rewarding long-term career opportunity?

Our success at designing innovative new products is attributable to our commitment to excellent Research, Development and Product Design. To ensure ongoing group expansion, an opportunity exists to join our engineering section within our Product Design team.

We are ideally seeking a candidate with experience of plastic moulding, toolmaking or manufacturing. Qualifications in Engineering, Manufacturing or Design may be beneficial.

If you have a genuine desire to succeed and wish to join a progressive, global Company with excellent opportunities and benefits then look no further…

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Approve production tooling
• Supply chain liaison
• View and review tooling trials (potential for overseas travel)
• Dimensional checking of components
• Audit and improve production assembly methods
• Conduct time and motion studies
• Management and control of existing tooling
• Design and develop production jigging (3D CAD and 3D printing)
• Produce 2D component and assembly drawings
• Produce parts lists and bills of materials

About You:

• Valid UK Driving Licence (Essential)
• Knowledge of a wide range of manufacturing processes
• Technically minded
• Some engineering, manufacturing or design experience
• To be familiar with CAD software (SolidWorks)
• Be confident and pro-active
• Ability to work to strict deadlines
• Have a friendly and professional attitude
• Good communicator

Benefits:

• A competitive commencing salary
• 33 days paid holiday
• A comprehensive training programme
• Company final salary pension scheme after a minimum of two year's service
• Life insurance after a minimum of two year's service
• Pension through NEST within 3 months of start date
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Long service awards
• Private health insurance scheme after a minimum of one year's service
• Cashback plan for dental care, eyecare, prescriptions, physiotherapy and more
• Subsidised on-site Café / social space
• Dress Down Friday
• Free on-site parking
• Team building days
• Paid charity days and Company events

The Glasdon Group Limited is an equal opportunities employer.

Please click the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of: Engineering, Product Assembly, Tooling, Manufacturing, Jigging, CAD, SolidWorks, 3D Printing, Rotational Moulding, Injection Moulding, Blow Moulding, Product Design, Industrial, Casting, Production, Product Development, Processes, Fabrications, Project Management, Pressing, Construction, Technical Drawings, TQM and 3D Modelling may also be considered for this role.