Maintenance Technician - Tool & Die

at  Leggett Platt

We make life more comfortable.
Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.
Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership in the residential products industry span more than 130 years. As The Components People, we are the leading supplier of a wide range of products and components for all areas of life, including mattress springs and carpet cushion, as well as bedding machinery and erosion-control products.
From aerospace tubing and fabricated assemblies to flooring underlayment and carpet cushion, Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the aerospace, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile, and geo components industries.
Learn more about the history of Leggett: https://leggett.com/history

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING?

• Perform toolmaking function with all shop equipment (milling, lathing, precision grinding, polishing, welding and fitting) and make parts to print.
• Able to plan, construct, alter and repair a wide variety of details, tools, jigs, fixtures and gauges to very close tolerances.
• Disassemble tooling to determine cause of problems and implement corrective actions.
• Recommend or specify heat treat procedure.
• Complete required documentation and notify proper persons when tooling is ready for production.
• Ensure inventory levels of spare parts are adequate and reordered in a timely manner.
• Interpret complex blueprints and sketches and plan and determine working procedure, working to close tolerances.
• Check and measure parts with use of precision measuring devices to assure quality specification and record quality check.
• Assemble, fit, align, and adjust finished production tooling and parts for production equipment.
• Assist with the setup of stamping press or injection molder as required.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL NEED:

• Experience as a Toolmaker in the areas of Plastic Injection Molds, Stamping Dies or a combination of both. Focus would be progressive dies and injection molds.
• Possession of a Certificate of Qualification as a Toolmaker.
• Graduation from certified Tool & Die Apprenticeship program.
• Knowledge of manufacturing, tooling, cutting tools, and machine parts.
• 6+ years’ machinist toolmaking experience, training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Possess basic math skills and working knowledge of advanced shop mathematics, including trigonometry and geometry.