Toolmakers and Tool & Die Maintenance Technicians are predominantly
involved in the highly skilled, complex and specialist detailed work of
manufacturing and maintaining the engineering tooling used to produce
components, products and assemblies. These products, assemblies and systems
affect all of our daily lives, whether it be for travel such as (cars, planes,
boats and rail) energy, defence, food, clothing, packaging and health including
medical equipment, devices and implants such as joint replacements. This
requires the application of a broad range of activities including the
interpretation of Engineering drawings and technical instructions and the use of
hand, machine and automated computer controlled machine tools and measuring
equipment.
The course is delivered by a mixture of theory and practical work, both at
College and in the workplace.
