Employment Percentage
-79.74947808
SOC ID
51-4022
SOC Title
Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
ONET ID
51-4022.00
ONET Concat ID
51402200
Median Salary
43992
EMSI Interest Area Term
Ed Level High School
100
Ed Level Certificate
0
Ed Level Some College
0
Ed Level Associates
0
Ed Level Bachelors
0
Ed Level Masters
0
Ed Level Doctors
0
Typical Ed Level
a high school diploma or less
Career Description
Set up, operate, or tend forging machines to taper, shape, or form metal or plastic parts.
Core Tasks
- Read work orders or blueprints to determine specified tolerances and sequences of operations for machine setup.
- Measure and inspect machined parts to ensure conformance to product specifications.
- Position and move metal wires or workpieces through a series of dies that compress and shape stock to form die impressions.
- 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.
- Repair, maintain, and replace parts on dies.
Start Annual Earnings
27227.2
Top Annual Earnings
65083.2
EMSI Career Title Slug
forging-machine-setter-operator-and-tender-metal-and-plastic