Fabrication Machine Operators

About the role

Fabrication Machine Operators organize the required materials and operate machinery to create projects, while ensuring projects are accurate and complete before sending them on to the other areas of production.

Responsibilities

• Operates fabrication shop machinery and equipment.
• Reads job specifications to determine machine adjustments and material requirements/thickness.
• Loads and unloads material from machinery using forklift.
• Performs preventative maintenance on machinery.
• Observes machine operation to detect workpiece defects or machine malfunction.
• Machinery to be operated includes turrets, brake presses, various benders, and other punches and breakout devices to keep product moving effectively through the fabrication department.
• Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts, and vibration.
• Noise level in the work environment can be loud.
• Regularly required to talk and hear.
• Position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling and climbing all day.
• Must frequently lift or move items up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Requirements

• Ability to read and understand CAD drawings preferred.
• Knowledge of decimal and fraction conversions preferred.
• Must have the ability to read a ruler.
• Ability to read a caliper preferred.
• Communicate effectively in both verbal and written form; perform basic math functions.
• Willing and able to work overtime.
• Dependable with emphasis on attendance and punctuality.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to frequently lift or move items up to 50 pounds and be on your feet for entirety of shift.
• Regularly required to talk and hear.
• Position requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling and climbing.
• Specific vision abilities: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.