Toolmaker (Casting)

Toolmaker (Casting) Job Highlights

Company Profile

Magna International is one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers and is dedicated to delivering mobility solutions. The company’s competitive capabilities include body exteriors and structures, power and vision technologies, seating systems, and complete vehicle solutions.

Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis, and engineering solutions to global customers.

Job Profile

The company is seeking a Toolmaker (Casting) who will maintain and troubleshoot dies in-house to produce a quality product in a safe manner.

Be responsible for continuous improvement of tooling, housekeeping, making informed decisions, and having tooling ready for production runs.

Educational Qualification

• Applicants requires a High School Diploma or GED equivalent
• Possess 2-year from a technical college

Work Experience

• Possess a minimum 5 years of experience in a heavy industrial manufacturing facility

Duties/Responsibilities

• Follow and enforce all plant safety rules and policies.
• Maintain dies and other tooling to produce quality parts to improve processes to increase productivity
• Modifies dies and tooling to conform to engineering changes.
• Operates a variety of small machines, tools and equipment.
• Performs scheduled preventative maintenance on all tooling and fills out the pm sheet and keep PM schedules up to date.
• Tig and Mig welding and hand working parts of dies (heat treat of materials)
• Troubleshoots for problems during production.
• Tryout of new die sets and tooling.
• Understand and promote Magna’s philosophies (Magna Operational Principles, Corporate Constitution and Employee’s Charter).
• Verifies conformance of machined or repaired dies to specifications by checking dimensions, clearances and alignments.

Other Requirements

• Journeyman certification is preferred: general knowledge of troubleshooting, materials and methods, machines and tools, and practical application of engineering science.
• Computer knowledge and CNC or EDM and Tig welding, but not required; CAD/Blueprint reading and shop math; die building experience is a plus, but not necessary.
• Basic knowledge in automation

Employer’s Statement

Magna International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company hires on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.