Job Listing

Responsibilities:
• Read work orders or blueprints to determine specified tolerances and sequences of operations for machine setup.
• Position and move metal wires or workpieces through a series of dies that compress and shape stock to form die impressions.
• Measure and inspect machined parts to ensure conformance to product specifications.
• Set up, operate, or tend presses and forging machines to perform hot or cold forging by flattening, straightening, bending, cutting, piercing, or other operations to taper, shape, or form metal.
• Turn handles or knobs to set pressures and depths of ram strokes and to synchronize machine operations.
• Install, adjust, and remove dies, synchronizing cams, forging hammers, and stop guides, using overhead cranes or other hoisting devices, and hand tools.
• Start machines to produce sample workpieces, and observe operations to detect machine malfunctions and to verify that machine setups conform to specifications.
• Confer with other workers about machine setups and operational specifications.
• Trim and compress finished forgings to specified tolerances.
• Remove dies from machines when production runs are finished.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by department supervisor, factory manager.

Qualifications:
High School Diploma/equivalent, plus minimum two (2) years’ experience as a machine operator. Must possess critical-thinking skills-using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. Must possess working knowledge of using micrometers and calipers.