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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Manufacture tooling
   • Select and obtain appropriate materials to meet tooling requirements for strength, durability, component finish and heat treatment qualities, where necessary, and account for materials availability
   • Test selected material for hardness, as appropriate, to aid selection of machine tools, hand tools and hand held power tools to be used to fashion or shape tooling components
   • Develop plan to sequence and stage manufacturing process, including establishing datum, mark out, rough out (machine or fashion), stress relieve/heat treat, finish size, fashion and fit and assemble componentry
2. Trial tooling
   • Check first-off component with precision instruments against specification
   • Modify tooling to produce components to specification, as necessary
   • Re-trial modified tooling and produce component
   • Verify conformance to specification and report according to SOPs
   • Record all deviations or modifications to original tooling design, prints or plans and report according to SOPs
3. Determine job requirements
   • Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
4. Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
5. Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
6. Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
7. Prepare to manufacture cavity die
   • Determine tooling requirements from customer's components drawings, prints or sample component
8. Develop the tooling type and design and plan with reference to customer's specifications (written or verbal) for numbers, finish, quality and material
9. Assess production machine to be used to produce components and consider in tooling design
10. Interpret tool design from tooling drawings, prints or plan and check against customer requirements
11. Determine selected production machine mounting requirements to ensure any special or additional provisions are incorporated in tooling design
    • Select and obtain appropriate materials to meet tooling requirements for strength, durability, component finish and heat treatment qualities, where necessary, and account for materials availability
12. Test selected material for hardness, as appropriate, to aid selection of machine tools, hand tools and hand held power tools to be used to fashion or shape tooling components
13. Develop plan to sequence and stage manufacturing process, including establishing datum, mark out, rough out (machine or fashion), stress relieve/heat treat, finish size, fashion and fit and assemble componentry
14. Perform machining operations
    • Select appropriate machines and machining process from a range of standard tool room machines to shape/produce tooling components to specifications
15. Use hand and hand held power tools
    • Select a range of hand and hand held power tools and use to fashion/manufacture tooling components to specification
16. Produce components sample or section for testing, where practicable
17. Assemble tooling components
    • Check and fit/assemble to specifications using acceptable tool making techniques and procedures components
    • Check first-off component with precision instruments against specification
18. Modify tooling to produce components to specification, as necessary
19. Re-trial modified tooling and produce component
20. Verify conformance to specification and report according to SOPs
21. Record all deviations or modifications to original tooling design, prints or plans and report according to SOPs

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Tooling includes one (1) or more of the following:	forging dies extruding dies die casting (high and low pressure and gravity feed) plastic moulds (injection, compression, blow and foam) glass moulds dies requiring precision manufacture
Tool room equipment includes one (1) or more of the following:	lathes mills copy/duplicator grinders electrical discharge machining (EDM) and wire cut equipment precision measurement hand and power tools

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