Press Brake Operator - 1st shift

Description

Overview

Coordinates all activities required to effectively lay out work, set-up appropriate machines or equipment to meet or exceed fabrication, assembly, and customer requirements, per design specifications and published schedules.

Efficiently utilizes resources to minimize scrap, materials, and labor.

Responsibilities include, but is not limited to, the following

• Set up dies, punches, and programs of automatic and manual press brake on various types of sheet metal
• Efficiently operate automatic and manual press brake
• Calculate bend allowance and bend deductions to maintain quality standards
• Understand and read blueprints
• Able to work in fabrication department and basic fabrication manual machines
• Work with minimal supervision to accurately accomplish any given task
• Other duties as assigned / needed

Requirements

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Must have a High School Degree or GED equivalent
• Fork lift and overhead crane training and certification preferred
• Ability to read, analyze, interpret, and comprehend all forms of written and / or verbal instructions including but not limited to basic correspondence and blueprints
• Effectively able to present information and respond to questions from managers, supervisors, and other employees of the organization
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, fractions, decimals, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, angles, and volume
• Knowledge of basic concepts of geometry, and sheet metal bending (Bend allowance and bend deduction)
• Ability to apply a common sense approach and understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand up to 8 hours per day; use hands to finger, handle, or feel;

reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is required to walk, occasionally climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, bend or crouch.

The employee must regularly lift and / or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles may require respiratory protection.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud and may require hearing protection.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.