Tool and Die Maker

Website Tenneco

Tool and Die Maker Job Highlights

Title Tool & Die Maker
Type Full Time
Experience 5 Years
Function Management/Manufacturing
Location Athens, AL, United States
Company Tenneco

Company Profile

Tenneco is one of the world’s leading designers, manufacturers, and marketers of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers.

Job Profile

The company is seeking a Tool and Die Maker who is skilled in the area of building and maintaining tools and dies necessary for producing products.

Also, sets up and operates machinery to assemble parts to make and repair metal working dies.

Educational Qualification

  • Applicants should have a High School Diploma or GED
  • Completed Technical School courses through a 4-year apprenticeship (preferred)

Work Experience

  • Possess 5+ years of experience

Duties/Responsibilities

  • Builds Dies – Work layout, machine and grind and fit details – thorough knowledge of tooling, machining processes, and die functions – distractions and interruptions to other jobs.
  • Have the ability to mentally picture the position and shape of objects; predict position in space after movement.
  • Maintains dies in the Press Room – Analyzes die problems, troubleshoots problems, repairs damaged details, sharpens, aligns, and times dies – same skills as above plus knowledge and experience with presses, feed mechanisms, releases, timing, and die set-up. Distractions, noise, working in confined and dangerous quarters, oil, and compounds.
  • Required knowledge of steels, stresses, and materials.
  • Sharpens and repairs dies in tool room – Disassembles dies, inspects, welds, repairs, grinds, detail, fits detail into dies – same skill requirements as above, same distractions, and interruptions plus frustrations of machine shortage at times.
  • May be given certain authority within job scope by Manager
  • Other duties may be assigned.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

  • Ability to work with complicated drawings and diagrams.
  • Involves very little repetition, and assignments frequently present a new set of complex problems or conditions.
  • Requires use of advanced shop math and formulas.
  • Tool and die repairing and building of the most-complicated molding dies and progressive metal dies where construction details are frequently left to the employee to develop
  • Requires the use of a high degree of judgment, initiative, and ingenuity working independently to devise new methods, procedures, processes, layouts, equipment, designs, circuitry, etc. to accomplish very difficult problems. The developing of the details and constructing of very complicated tools and dies.

Other Abilities-

  • Intense and exacting mental and visual attention.
  • Develop intricate and complex details for complicated dies.
  • Responsible for own work. This includes aiding in the training of new employees.

Physical Demands

  • Light physical effort on average, working with light, medium, and occasionally heavy materials.

Work Environment

  • Somewhat disagreeable working conditions.
  • Voices must occasionally be raised to carry on a conversation.
  • Continuous handling of greasy, oily material or use of coolants, water, and flux.
  • Exposure to lost-time accidents or health hazards as related to factory environment.

Employer’s Statement

Tenneco is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

To apply for this job please visit jobs.tenneco.com.

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