Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates power press to assemble metal, plastic, rubber, or glass products by crimping, shaping, locking, staking, or press fitting: Installs specified dies on machine bed and ram, using measuring instruments and handtools.

• 2) Positions and clamps holding fixtures to machine bed, using sample workpiece, template, rule, and gauge.

• 3) Adjusts setscrews to regulate stroke of ram.

• 4) Aligns parts between dies or positions them against fixtures on machine.

• 5) Moves controls to lower ram that bends, clinches, or forces parts together.

• 6) May operate machine to separate parts.

• 7) May set up and operate machine to punch, cut, face, chamfer, or compress parts preparatory to assembly.

• 8) May install gears and cams to synchronize action of multiple ram, feed, and positioning action of automatic presses.