About this role
NEXXTA is a U.S.-based manufacturing partner with four Great Lakes facilities delivering precision, speed, and scale. We serve industry leaders across transportation, energy, medical, and defense, offering tariff-free production, open capacity, and rapid ramp-up. With in-house R&D and engineering, we help customers strengthen supply chains and build confidently in America
JOB DUTIES & ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Assemble and disassemble a variety of injection molding tools for general maintenance, repairs, and revisions.
- Inspect tools, dies, jigs, and fixtures for condition and conformance to tooling standards.
- Comprehend specifications such as blueprints, sketches, models, or descriptions.
- Visualize product to determine materials required and machines used to fabricate parts.
- Setup and operate tool room equipment needed to build, repair, revise and service molds, fixtures and related tools in a correct and timely manner. Including, but not limited to: manual and/or CNC controlled lathes, milling machines, and grinders.
- Maneuver and secure machined parts and tools on a surface plate or worktable.
- Fit and assemble smooth and contoured parts together and into assemblies.
- Use hand tools, machine shop gages, indicators and other measurement equipment to verify conformance
- Connect wiring and hydraulic lines for electrical and hydraulic components.
- Compute dimensions, plan layout and determine assembly method and sequence of operations.
- Verify conformance of dimensions, alignments, and clearances of machined parts to specifications with the use of hand tools, machine shop gages, indicators and other measurement equipment.
- Use CAD system to determine size of components to be machined.
- Recommend design modifications regarding construction and function of mold assemblies.
- Draw or sketch design of concept ideas to be evaluated by other team members.
- Observe injection molding machine operation to detect tool and die malfunctions, provide solutions to address the problems.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Close out electronic work orders for tooling projects and enter tooling notes into electronic database.
- Transports tools and dies between production area and tool room using a forklift.
- Operate overhead hoist/crane to position tools and dies.
- This list of duties is not exhaustive. Duties may change or be added by management as needed.
Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Journeyworkers Card in Tool & Die Making with a minimum of 5 years experience is preferred; will consider eight years of documented experience without a Journeyworkers Card.
- 3 to 5 years of experience using hand operated tool room equipment with experience in a tool room involving plastic injection mold repair or mold maintenance.
- Knowledge of Plastic Injection Molding tool design and construction.
- Knowledge of plastic injection mold making terminology.
- Able to read and comprehend blue prints and tool drawings.
- Able to read machine shop gages and indicators.
- Basic computer skills (MS Office products, CAD)
- Demonstrated organizational, interpersonal, and attention to detail skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with team members or other employees in the organization.
- Ability to define problems, collect and analyze objective data and draw valid conclusions.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Willingness to learn new technologies.
- Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently.
- CNC wire and sinker experience is a plus.