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Job Description

Lapeer-based plastic injection molding manufacture is seeking a Tool Fabricator to join their team.  1st Shift, Monday-Friday, pay based on experience, $26-30 p/h.  Resume and interview required.  This is an automotive part facility,

  • Responsible for repair and maintenance checks on all molds.
  • Work with molding supervision and process techs to schedule routine or emergency repairs and maintenance.
  • If repair required outside of client capabilities, send out for repair.
  • Install new tool calendars; change calendars monthly
  • Daily review of machine downtime reports, tool problems.
  • Document all work performed on tools on repair log.
  • Follow all safety procedures, log out and hot drop offs.
  • Stencil each tool with job number.
  • Responsible for following customer approval changes occurring,
  • Repair and maintain all checking fixtures.
  • Build and maintain holding fixtures, cooling trays, cutting tool, clip/stud insertion fixtures.
  • Build and repair glue fixtures, prototype tools.
  • Keep tool room clean and organized.
  • Order materials and tooling needed for maintenance, repair, build.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Skills and Requirements:

  • Previous experience in toolmaking, tool technician, tool room. (minimum of 2 years)
  • HSD/GED
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How this job compares in Lapeer, MI

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $25/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Michigan, whose middle half runs $23–$29/hr across 16 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 56% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Lapeer, MI

Lapeer, MI is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Michigan as a whole we're tracking 91 other active welding openings from 64 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Michigan.

Qualified Staffing currently has 6 other openings live in Michigan, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Michigan at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Qualified Staffing (6), Welding Shop in Detroit, MI (6), and Advanced Blending Solutions (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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