Tool Grinder

GKN AerospaceGKN Aerospace

Tool Grinder

Date: 23 Sep 2026 Location: Hoogeveen, NL Company: GKN Aerospace Careers

Within Fokker Hoogeveen, Machining unit, complex aircraft parts are machined to the highest quality standards for the aerospace industry. To ensure this quality, we develop and produce most of our tools internally within the Toolshop department. To expand our team, we are looking for a Tool Grinder.

What will you do?

As a tool grinder, you play a key role within the machining process. You develop, grind, and optimize tools that contribute directly to the quality and continuity of our production. Your activities include, among others:

• Developing and improving existing and new tools (milling and drilling);
• Programming grinding programs with ANCA software;
• Programming measurement programs with Zoller Genius;
• Checking and measuring tools;
• CNC grinding of tools on an ANCA grinding machine;
• Conventional grinding of tools;
• Ensuring inventory management of tools and required materials.

Job Requirements

• MBO working and thinking level;
• Experience with machining and/or tool grinding is a plus;
• Good communication skills;
• Good command of the English language, both oral and written;
• Proactive attitude, a true team player, and able to set priorities.

We also explicitly invite candidates with a background as a CNC machinist who wish to develop into a tool grinder to apply.

Competencies

• Analytical thinking: making connections and understanding complex problems
• Communication skills: communicating clearly and interacting with multiple parties
• Planning and organizing: effectively setting priorities and maintaining an overview
• Result-oriented: proactive, improvement-oriented, and decisive
• Quality-oriented...