How do they match: Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

  • Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

  • Machine Operator
  • Automatic Casting-Forging Machine Operator
  • Bolt Machine Operator
  • Die Machine Operator
  • Expander Machine Operator
  • Forging Machine Hand
  • Forging Machine Operator
  • Header Machine Operator
  • Heavy Forging Machine Operator
  • Multi Operation Machine Operator
  • Roller Machine Operator
  • Spike Machine Operator
  • Spring Salvage Worker
  • Swaging Machine Operator
  • Upsetting Machine Operator

  • Set up, operate, or tend forging machines to taper, shape, or form metal or plastic parts.

  • Confer with other workers about machine setups and operational specifications.
  • Measure and inspect machined parts to ensure conformance to product specifications.
  • Read work orders or blueprints to determine specified tolerances and sequences of operations for machine setup.
  • Remove dies from machines when production runs are finished.
  • 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.
  • Sharpen cutting tools and drill bits, using bench grinders.
  • Start machines to produce sample workpieces, and observe operations to detect machine malfunctions and to verify that machine setups conform to specifications.
  • Turn handles or knobs to set pressures and depths of ram strokes and to synchronize machine operations.

  • Operate cutting equipment.
  • Sharpen cutting or grinding tools.