Job Type: Full-time
Location: Missoula, MT
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, create, and repair a wide range of tools, molds, jigs, and fixtures
- Operate manual and CNC machines, grinders, and EDM to fabricate tools
- Interpret engineering drawings to create precise tools
- Inspect and measure completed tools using micrometers, calipers, and/or height gauges
- Maintain and troubleshoot tools and equipment to ensure optimal performance and minimize downtime
- Collaborate with engineers and production to develop custom tools
- Maintain a clean, organized work space
- Perform routine maintenance on tools and machinery to extend their lifespan and ensure consistent quality
- Document work processes, tool specifications, and maintenance records
- Work with minimal supervision, performing advanced tooling repairs, modifications, and changes to meet exacting tolerances and tight deadlines
- Mentor and support other toolmakers, providing technical guidance and hands-on training to elevate team skill levels
- Collaborate with engineering, quality, and production teams to resolve tooling and molding challenges and support continuous improvement initiatives to minimize rework
Qualifications:
- Proven experience as a tool maker or in a similar role within a manufacturing environment
- Minimum 3-5 years of CNC Machining (programming and operating)
- Minimum 3-5 years of Mastercam experience or equivalent CAD/CAM software
- 4th and 5th axis knowledge preferred
- EDM knowledge preferred
- Must be mechanically inclined
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Detail-oriented
- Capable of learning new processes
- Safety conscience attitude
- Ability to follow direction and work well in a team environment
- Ability to work with minimal supervision
Salary: $27 – $42/hour ($56,160 – $87,360 /year)
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Employer-paid health insurance
- Employer contribution to HSA
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Schedule:
- Monday – Thursday
- 6:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- 4, 10-hour shifts
Essential Functions: Stand for long periods of time; frequent movements of hands, wrists and arms; see objects less than a few feet in distance; lift up to 75 lbs., twist, bend.
Take the leap! We invite you to come work with us to reimagine, reinvent and revolutionize the future of plastics and manufacturing!
