Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering - Toolmaker
Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering - Toolmaker
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Toolmakers make the precision tools that are used in manufacturing to create products and parts anything from a plate in the back of a TV to a door of a car, or medical parts.
- Work with computer-aided design and manufacturing software (CAD/CAM)
- Mark out tool designs
- Cut and shape tools with lathes, presses and cutting machines
- Enter settings into computer-controlled machines
- Check dimensions with measuring instruments
- Carry out basic machine maintenance
Your working environment may be noisy.
You may need to wear safety clothing and use safety equipment.
44 to 46 hours per week, usually between 8:00am to 6:00pm.
As a tool maker you may be required to do some shift work
Starting salary: £15,000
Experienced salary: up to £33,000
You can start as an engineering operative in a workshop or factory and do further training on the job to specialise in toolmaking. Employers may want you to have either 2 GCSEs at grades 3 to 1 or 2 or more GCSEs at grades 9 to 3. However, some employers may be more flexible and look at your practical abilities.
You can complete an engineering operative intermediate apprenticeship or an engineering technician advanced apprenticeship. If you have an EHCP you may be able to apply under the DfE exemption which allows the apprentice to use Entry level 3 English and Maths qualifications. The apprentice would have to be component enough to successfully achieve all other aspects of the apprenticeship requirements, become occupationally competent and achieve Entry Level 3 in English and Maths before the end of their apprenticeship.