Tool & Die Maker

Position: Tool & Die Maker

Reports to: Group Leader

Cannon Industries

A global company with headquarters in Rochester, New York, Cannon Industries has grown to become one of the leading sheet metal and custom weld fabricators in the contract manufacturing industry. Our quality standards are unsurpassed in the industry because we know that our customers’ standards grow with each passing year. Computer controlled processes, operators and technicians with decades of experience, and strict procedures for quality control have led Cannon Industries to step ahead of the competition, by earning QS:9000, ISO:9002, and TS:16949 certifications. Cannon Industries, Inc. is a drug, smoke and alcohol free working environment.

General Job Description:

Constructs and repairs shop tools, gages, jigs, fixtures or dies used in the production and acceptance or inspection of parts from sheet metal.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Five or more years experience as a tool and die maker for the sheet metal industry
• Knowledge of characteristics of various metals needed to achieve final product.
• Must be able to read and understand blueprints
• Must supply own tools

Specific Duties:

1. Makes tools and dies for forging, punching, milling, drilling, and other metal forming, die casting and metal cutting work.
2. Layout and plan work from mechanical drawings, models, rough sketches or other oral and written specifications.
3. Work with engineering and production to build Fixtures and Gages to ensure quality of parts
4. Occasionally assist with making prototype and short run parts.
5. Maintenance and maintain customer dies and tooling.
6. Use a variety of tool and die maker’s hand tools and measuring instruments
7. Understand the working properties of common metals and alloys.
8. Set up and operate a wide variety of machine tools and related equipment.
9. Has knowledge of shrinkage and draft and heat-treating of metal parts during fabrication as well as of finished tools and dies to achieve required results.
10. Works to close tolerances on tools of intricate design.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as it may be deemed necessary.