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benefits:

$500 sign on bonus gainsharing bonus medical, dental, vision – no monthly premium for employees Company funded pension 401k plan with company match paid lunch & breaks basic life insurance & Short-Term Disability 10 paid holidays vacation accrual based on years of service stock purchase plan tuition reimbursement safety shoe & prescription safety glasses allowance

 

Position Overview:

The Tool & Die Maker serves a key function in the operation and on-going maintenance of the high-speed manufacturing equipment that produces both metal cans and ends at the Dubuque, Iowa manufacturing location. 

Duties And Responsibilities:

Reporting directly to manufacturing floor supervision and management, the Tool & Die Maker responsibilities would include, but not be limited to, the following:   

Perform work requiring a thorough knowledge of machine shop and tool room practices and techniques, properties of various materials, and the principles of application and operations of various types of tools, jigs, fixture and dies Make repairs or alterations to end and tongue dies including the manufacture of replacement parts as needed Use precision measuring instruments to assemble, fit, align and adjust parts to very exact tolerances Manage tooling inventories, setup tool packs, measure precision tolerances and work with assembly set-ups Study specifications such as blueprints, sketches, models or descriptions to determine materials required and machines to be used to fabricate parts Set-up and operation of machine tools such as lathes, milling machines and other equipment to machine parts Interact closely with the operations team to plan, trouble shoot and analyze production and equipment issues and concerns and come up with solutions Run quality checks on product in line with customer requirements