Job Summary
Sets up and operates press brakes. Utilizes total length of brake and various tools to form shapes in sheet metal per blueprints.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Operate brakes and associated machinery to meet production requirements.
- Gather, preset, and install proper tooling and fixtures.
- Run first piece and assure conformance to drawing.
- Inspect all parts as required by process sheet and drawings, using all types of precision measuring instruments, including coordinate measuring device.
Non-Essential Duties
- Document inspection data and procedures
- Check tooling wear and change as needed.
- Monitor production processes at appropriate intervals to ensure continued part compliance.
- Coordinate with programming to flat pattern layout.
- Determine with Quality Control in-process inspection requirements, gauging and measuring devices.
- Monitor production to ensure conformance with process sheet and time standards.
- Monitor machine maintenance for lubrication, guarding and cleanliness.
- Assist others with processing, methods, and work habits to maintain maximum efficiency.
- Monitor scrap and rework.
- Assist in design of special tooling and fixtures.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Reads and interprets complex drawings/blueprints to produce acceptable parts.
- Ability to independently set up tooling.
- Strong computer literacy and math aptitude.
- Able to follow directions precisely and perform repetitive tasks.
Experience and Education:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- 2-3 years of experience operating and setting up press brakes in the sheet metal industry.
- Fluent in written and verbal English.