Tool Room Technician (Coil Shop) - 2nd Shift - 3p - 11p
GKN Automotive
**Maintenance Technician Mechanical focused – Tool Room**
**About Us**
GKN Automotive is the market leader in conventional, all-wheel, and electrified drive systems and solutions. With a comprehensive global footprint, we design, develop, manufacture, and integrate an extensive range of driveline technologies for over 90% of the world’s car manufacturers.
**Role purpose**
Multi-skilled tool room technician for the manufacture, repair, and inspect Induction hardening coils, quench blocks, plant tooling and machine components using tool and die skills to include lathes, mills, and other machine shop equipment. Support manufacture and use of all fixtures, jigs, and measurement tools for the manufacture and repair of coils, quench blocks and machine tooling to hold precise tolerances. Maintain all equipment, tools, jigs, and fixtures. Requires hot work to include torch brazing and soldering.
**Key responsibilities**
**Coils, Quench Blocks, and Machine Tooling**
Safely operate Manual Mills, Saws, Grinders, Lathes, and other tool room equipment for manufacture of components, tooling. Safely use torches to solder components together during tooling assembly. Development and improvement of fixtures to support coil component and assembly manufacture.
**Equipment Maintenance and Repair**
Maintain all equipment and ensure equipment machanical accuracy to obtain tolerances for precision tools / components manufacture.
**Solutions Analysis**
Find the most effective ways to respond to routine functional enquiries. Involves following procedures and precedents.
**Quality**
Conduct complex analyses, quality tests, inspections, and measurements that require a high level of independent judgment. Ensure all work is completed per drawings on CAD system.
**Operational Compliance**
Develop working knowledge of the organization's policies and procedures and of regulatory codes and codes of conduct relevant to own work, adhering to mandatory procedures to ensure own work is undertaken to the required standards.
**Health, Safety and Environment**
Follow a range of mandatory procedures and methods of work (including use of personal protection equipment where relevant) to safeguard the environment and the wellbeing of oneself and others.
**Work Scheduling and Allocation**
Organize own work schedule each day in line with changing priorities.
**Personal Capability Building**
Develop and maintain excellent process or technical skills by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching.
**Internal Communications**
Support others by implementing improvements and carrying out simple change management tasks.
**Values & Behaviours**
**Ingenious: Manages complexity**
Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example, looks at complex issues from multiple angles; explores issues to uncover underlying issues and root causes; sees the main consequences and implications of different options.
**Ingenious: Driving continuous improvement**
Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement. For example, generally follows defined and communicated standards, methods, and procedures. Seeks advice and finds ways to work better within processes. Makes some reasonable suggestions to improve work methods.
**Ingenious: Effective decision making**
Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. For example, seeks coaching from others to address routine problems; learns to handle these issues effectively. Bases decisions and actions on relevant rules and procedures.
**Collaborative: Navigates organisational dynamics**
Maneuvers comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics. For example, proactively seeks to understand the organizational culture and adapts fluently to expected behaviors and protocols. Is inquisitive about the workgroup's function and the unwritten rules of the group.
**Principled: Accountability**
Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. For example, accepts responsibility for own work, both successes and failures. Handles fair share and does not make excuses for problems. Usually meets commitments to others.
**Driven: Prioritisation**
Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. For example, outlines clear plans that put actions in a logical sequence; conveys some time frames. Aligns own work with relevant workgroups. Takes some steps to reduce bottlenecks and speed up the work.
**Driven: Action oriented**
Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. For example, takes timely action on important or difficult issues. Identifies and pursues new opportunities that benefit the organization.
**Skills**
**Verbal Communication**
Uses clear and effective verbal communications skills without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on expressing ideas, requesting actions and formulating plans or policies.
**Health and Safety**
Manages and applies safe systems of work with guidance (but not constant supervision).
**Planning and Organizing**
Works with guidance (but not constant supervision) to plan, organize, prioritize and oversee activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
**Machine Shop**
Works with guidance (but not constant supervision) to operate in a machine shop environement. Ability and experience with reading and understanding blue prints and drawings. Experience in operating machine shop equipment.
**Policy and procedures**
Works with guidance (but not constant supervision) to develop, monitor, interpret and understand policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives.
**Navigates Field Service Interactions**
Works at an intermediate level to navigate customer interactions in a face-to-face setting, creating positive, defining moments. Typically works with guidance.
**Provides Technical Support**
Works at an intermediate level to employ customer-oriented behaviors that help engineers connect with their customers in productive and efficient ways, creating positive, defining moments. Typically works with guidance.
**Review and Reporting**
Works with guidance (but not constant supervision) to review and create relevant, lucid and effective reports and documentation of work completed.
**Education / Experience**
Tool and Die Apprenticeship
CNC Experience of 5+ years
Prior Experience operating mills, lathes, etc. in a tool room environment
Experience using acetylene torches is prefferred
GKN Driveline provides equal employment and affirmative action opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, pregnancy, or disability.
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