Tooling Technician

What we achieve together

• In your daily work, you ensure smooth production by resolving tooling breakdowns and carrying out preventative maintenance on press tools, fixtures and jigs across the site.
• Your responsibilities include diagnosing and resolving complex tooling issues, using your hands-on expertise to minimise downtime and ensure consistent production quality.
• Together with the press team, you manufacture, repair and adjust tooling using tool room equipment such as lathes and milling machines, supporting both reactive maintenance and continuous improvement initiatives.
• By performing tooling modifications and adjustments, you enable the efficient production of different component variants across press tools and specialised machinery.
• In close collaboration with production and quality teams, you ensure all tooling meets engineering specifications and delivers precise, high-quality output.
• You take ownership of identifying recurring issues, implementing sustainable improvements and contributing to tooling projects, while maintaining accurate documentation in line with internal processes.

What makes us successful together

• You have completed a recognised technical apprenticeship or bring equivalent qualifications in mechanical engineering, toolmaking or a related discipline.
• You have proven experience in press tooling maintenance or manufacturing environments, ideally with exposure to forming, cutting or bending processes.
• You are confident in operating workshop machinery such as milling machines, lathes and grinders, and can read and interpret engineering drawings with accuracy.
• Experience with CNC programming or advanced tooling design would be an advantage but is not essential.
• You approach challenges with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset, communicate effectively across teams and take pride in delivering high-quality, reliable work.

What you can count on

• We offer our employees an attractive remuneration package, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and bonus opportunities.
• We offer a generous pension scheme which enables our employees to have greater financial security when they do retire.
• For our employee’s peace of mind, we provide a death in service benefit.
• The safety of our employees is paramount and Vaillant Industrial are proud to have received the ROSPA Gold medal award for the 10th consecutive year and the resultant Presidents Award.
• We pride ourselves on our family friendly policies designed to support our employees during important life events.
• The health of our employees is important, we provide free eye test vouchers, Health MOT’s, NHS Health checks and flu vaccinations to all.