Manager Technician

James A. Peeler

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Gray Court, SC 29645

864-***-**** (c)

**********@*****.***

Summary

Tool & Mold professional with 40 years of machining and welding experience. Accomplished in the

manufacturing and repairing of precision parts and automation equipment. Offers great attention to detail,

skilled in reading blueprints and excellent at problem solving.

Work Experience

South Carolina Plastics 2013 -

Present

Fountain Inn, SC Toolmaker

Repair and maintain over 100 automotive molds for production. Inventory and order spare parts for tool

room. Work with outside vendors to repair and make spare tooling. Participated in the engineering and

designing of molds to achieve greater efficiency.

Peeler’s Tool & Mold 1997 – 2013

Gray Court, SC Owner/Operator

Responsible for hiring and supervising multiple workers. Build and repair molds, shafts and automation

equipment. Proficient in grinding, lathe, milling, EDM, and welding. Design automation equipment for

continuous run. Quote potential jobs.

Alibert Industries 1995 – 1997

Fountain Inn, SC Mold Repair Technician

Weld, fit, and repair automotive molds. Make new and repair old tooling for automation equipment.

Bic, Inc. 1990

– 1995

Fountain Inn, SC Mold Repair & Mold Technician

Maintained all mold machines and molds. Ran all mold machines, made spare tooling and changed molds

to different part numbers. Set-up, changed over and cleaned molds for the next run. Maintained spare

tooling for molds. Made automation equipment for production area and new parts.

Abbott Laboratories 1985 – 1990

Spartanburg, SC / Laurinburg, NC Toolmaker

Maintained molds, built spare tooling, and kept up automated equipment. Proficient in performing close

tolerance and high finish work to +.0002 finishes SPI-SPE or better. Recommended method, mold, or

automation improvements for quality and cost to IM Engineering Manager. 96% productivity on molds

and equipment. Able to analyze problems on hot runner, conventional, and three-plate runner systems.

AMP, Inc. 1980 – 1985

Spartanburg, SC Mold Maker, Mold Repair & Leadsman

Responsible for the supervision of eight toolmakers. Proficient in repairing molds. Able to solve and fix

problems that occur in running molds. Able to run and hold a two ten thousandth tolerance in the

following machines: EDM, surface grinder, lathe, cylindual grinder, jig boring and jig grinding. Other

machines capabilities are: vertical or horizontal sawing, milling, CNC, plate, grinding, drilling,

pantograph and tool grinder.

Education

Greenville Technical College, AAS - Industrial Maintenance (hydraulic & electrical), 1995

Spartanburg Technical College, AAS – Tool & Die, 1976

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