Tool and Die Support Technician

Job description

**Requisition ID:** 68283

ABOUT WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is a leading kitchen and laundry appliance company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home and inspiring generations with our brands.

The company is driving meaningful innovation to meet the evolving needs of consumers through its iconic brand portfolio, including Whirlpool, KitchenAid, JennAir, Maytag, Amana, Brastemp, Consul, and InSinkErator.

In 2023, the company reported approximately $19 billion in annual sales, 59,000 employees, and 55 manufacturing and technology research centers.

Additional information about the company can be found at WhirlpoolCorp.com.

**This role in summary**

About Whirlpool Corporation

Whirlpool is the industry leader in the manufacturing and marketing of home appliances.

Whirlpool is a global company that markets Whirlpool, Maytag, Jenn-Air, KitchenAid, Amana, Brastemp, Bauknecht, Consul, and other major brand names in more than 170 countries worldwide.

Our unique business strategy provides us with an unmatched leadership position and the ability to build and sustain loyalty to our brands.

Our strategy allows us to move with greater speed to serve our trade customers better and end consumers around the globe.

We are seeking qualified candidates for **Tool and Die Maker** positions to join our Tulsa, Oklahoma manufacturing location.

The positions and shifts we have available are as follows:

1st shift - Monday through Thursday 4:45am to 3:15pm

2nd Shift - Monday through Thursday 4:30pm to 3:00am

Hourly Pay Rate for Position: **$35.45** (2nd shift premium of $1.25 an hour)

**Your responsibilities will include**

Position Overview
In this position, you will be developing, constructing, and repairing a variety of intricate tools, sheet metal dies, gauges, and other machinery.

This role is expected to diagnose and detect faulty operations or defective material and take corrective action.

In this role, you will work from tooling prints, blueprints, and broad general instructions where details must be determined from drawings, production parts, or product drawings.

This could involve considerable tool development and experimental work, the ability to visualize the finished job, making necessary mathematical calculations, and determining the allowance for metal flo, shrinkage, etc, The position must recognize design errors that would interfere with producing or checking parts or equipment, work to and maintain extremely close tolerances using a wide variety of precision measuring instruments.

This role will make decisions as to clearances, mechanism details, and the development of form and contours and draws, perform bench and machine operations of all types involving a variety of unusual and complex setups and machining methods, and highly skilled assembly operations.

The position is expected to be able to apply heat treatment to ferrous materials.

This role is also responsible for undertaking production activities to transform tangible inputs (e.g. raw materials or semi-finished goods) or intangible inputs (e.g. ideas, information, know-how) into finished products or services.

The position may involve setting up, calibrating, and operating machines and equipment, supervising arrangements, monitoring resources, following production schedules and quality standards, monitoring production processes, and troubleshooting production problems.

**Minimum requirements**

Minimum Requirements

+ Must be able to use advanced shop mathematics, read highly complicated drawings, use a variety of measuring tools

+ Be able to continually lift material weighing between 5-35 lbs and also frequent lifting of 35-60 lbs
+ High school diploma or GED
+ 5 years experience in sheet metal tool and die
+ 5 years experience using typical tool room machinery

**Preferred skills and experiences**

Preferred Requirements

+ Be able to plan and perform unusual and difficult work where only general methods are available
+ Ability to instruct other people, and assign/coordinate work
+ Apprenticeship Program completion, Journey person’s card, and/or a minimum of five years of related industrial experience

*MUST SUBMIT RESUME WITH APPLICATION

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At Whirlpool Corporation, we value and celebrate diversity.

Whirlpool Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.

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