# Skilled Trade - Tool and Die Maker

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Louisville, KY
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $44.915 - $45.065 per hour
**Category**: Skilled Trades
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a skilled Tool and Die Maker to join our team in Louisville, KY. As a Tool and Die Maker, you will be responsible for performing tasks of the trade, including die maintenance, setup and operation of machine tools, and reading process sheets and work orders.

**Job Details:**

- Top hourly base rate of $45.065, plus applicable shift, overtime, and holiday premiums

- Starting rate of $44.915 with pay increases to the top rate upon completion of three consecutive months of employment

- Immediate access to best-in-class company-provided healthcare, including premium coverage for hospital-surgical-medical, drug, hearing, dental, and vision

- Basic life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance

- Accident and sickness and extended disability benefits

- Automatic enrollment in TESPHE, the hourly employee 401(k) plan, at an initial pre-tax contribution rate of 3%

- Eligibility for holiday pay, profit sharing, and lump sum bonuses, paid time off, tuition assistance, and immediate vehicle discount purchase plans

**Responsibilities:**

- Perform tasks of the trade, including standing for extended periods, walking unassisted, working at heights, and manipulating tools typical of the trade

- Learn and follow safety rules and procedures, work in a team environment, and treat co-workers with dignity and respect

- Understand and follow instructions, both oral and in writing

- Perform extensive die maintenance, including rebuilding die sections, retiming pads and forms, and engineering changes on large body class A dies

- Set up and operate conventional or computer numerically controlled machine tools, such as lathes, milling machines, and grinders

- Read process sheets, PM instructions, and work orders

- Identify root cause of die downtime with resolutions

**Qualifications:**

- Completion of a bona fide apprenticeship, or 8 years of previous experience, or a combination of previous work experience and training equivalent to a bona fide apprenticeship program in the trade

- Extensive experience with launching and try-out of large body dies

- Successful completion of a job interview, pre-employment drug screen, physical, and background check

## Skills

### Required
- die maintenance
- machine tool operation
- process sheet reading
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- launching and try-out of large body dies

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