Forme Setter
3 days ago
**Toolmaker (Packaging Industry)**
Able Cutting Formes Pty Ltd
Melbourne - Northern Suburbs VIC
Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics
Technicians and Trades Workers
Full-time (38 hours per week)
We are currently seeking an experienced Toolmaker for manufacturing cutting dies for the cardboard packaging industry with a minimum of 3 years of work experience to join our factory team in Thomastown, Victoria.
Full-time salary: $55,000 - $67,000 + super
Salary will be negotiated based on experience and skills.
Key responsibilities and duties include:
- Read blueprints, sketches of required tools and specifications
- Utilise computer aided design and manufacturing software to create drawings
- Shape parts using a combination of hand tools and computerised equipment
- Use CNC machine tools to cut, drill and finish components
- Grind, file, adjust parts so that they fit properly together
- Test completed tools and dies to ensure that they are up to the specifications
- Maintain and repair tool-making machinery
- Analysing and identifying die design issues and setting up die trials, improving repeatability of die performance
What you will need to succeed:
- Need to be accurate, able to read and interpret engineering drawings, reliable and willing to work
- Able to identify die failure and analyse reasons for failure
- Attention to detail
- May require a physical ability test and drug and alcohol testing
**Salary**: $1,057.00 - $1,288.00 per week
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Supplementary Pay:
- Christmas bonus
- Overtime pay
- Penalty rates
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Thomastown, VIC 3074: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Authorisation:
- Australia (required)