Tool Maker at Adexen

Our client is a leading Industrial company which manufactures a diverse range of plastic packaging products in Nigeria.

Job description

• Conduct test runs with completed tools or dies to ensure that parts meet specifications; make adjustments as necessary.
• Cut, shape, and trim blanks or blocks to specified lengths or shapes, using power saws, power shears, rules, and hand tools.
• File, grind, shim, and adjust different parts to properly fit them together.
• Fit and assemble parts to make, repair, or modify dies, jigs, gauges, and tools, using machine tools and hand tools.
• Inspect finished dies for smoothness, contour conformity, and defects.
• Lift, position, and secure machined parts on surface plates or worktables, using hoists, vises, v-blocks, or angle plates.
• Die mouth and die pin and blow pins fabrication for Blow mold and EBM process
• Preventive maintenance of molds and keeping records for all molds.

Expectations

• It is compulsory that the candidate has served plastic industry (cosmetic ,food grade, household) for at least 5 years and has good knowledge of plastic material (PP / HDPE / LD etc..) grades.
• Served a recognized Apprenticeship as a Toolmaker in injection molding,
• Good experience with hot runner and valve gate systems,
• Good experience with the repair and maintenance of injection molding tools,
• Good experience in fine fitting, flash repair and polishing is essential,
• Problem solving capabilities,
• Good knowledge of the injection molding process,
• Blow mold knowledge (repairs, maintenance, process)