Mold / Tool Maker - Petaluma, CA

Company: Thermo Fisher Scientific
Location: Petaluma
Posted on: October 15, 2020

Job Description:

Job DescriptionWhen you're part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you'll be supported in achieving your career goals. How will you make an impact? Your ideas will bring new products to life as you collaborate with other design engineers, process development engineers and project leaders to develop plastic products for life science, medical device, laboratory, diagnostic and consumer product markets. Make an impact for your career, our customers and the world with this exciting opportunity for a talented engineer. Collaborate with others like you to drive innovation, implement new design technology and develop best engineering practices in a growing organization. What will you do? * Perform routine preventive maintenance and repairs on plastic injection molds and document results. * Examine broken or malfunctioning injection mold parts for damage, wear or other defects and determine repairability. * Recommend and apply corrective actions to improve quality and performance. * Manufacture or modify mold components as required using manual or numerically-controlled machinery, including lathes, grinders, welders, etc., to achieve functional requirements within allowable tolerances. * Precision surface or cylindrical grinding experience to +/- .0001". Cylindrical OD/ID grinding machine a plus. * Collaborate with other Toolmakers or other departments to identify and resolve mold quality and performance issues in a timely manner. * Communicate resource needs for the toolroom including highlighting opportunities for continuous improvement and implementation of modern manufacturing principles. * Assist in maintaining supply of materials, tooling and shop supplies. Maintain shop and equipment for safety, operability and cleanliness. * Willingness to be trained and to train and develop the team as required and to assist with mentoring new hires and toolmaker apprentices. The candidate provides technical guidance to perform repairs, troubleshoot, and maintain precision plastic injection tooling; ensuring product quality and sustaining delivery commitments of manufacturing operation. How will you get here? Education High school diploma or equivalent required. Preferably Apprenticeship, Associates Degree or technical certification / licensure or equivalent training and /or experience, with focus on tooling, mold-making and machining. ​ Experience All relevant skillsets will be considered, if you think you can do the job tell us why! Training will be supplied for the right candidate. Below are skillsets that would make a candidate successful. * Strong machining background operating various machine tools to achieve tolerances

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