Brake Press Operator

An Incredible Culture with Benefits You’ll Love

When it comes to keeping our incredible teams happy, we believe it’s about more than pay. We want to ensure every member of the Sjoberg team experiences a healthy work/life balance with pay, benefits, and development opportunities that help them thrive and build the career and life they want.

Our Values

- Integrity

We approach each other, our work, and our clients with integrity, firmly standing behind the services and products we provide

- Honesty

We clearly evaluate our client needs and our capabilities to ensure we can provide the exact part or component they need, when they need it. We do not over-promise to ensure our end product is exactly what the client needs.

- Respect

We recognize that every single member of the Sjoberg Tool team plays an important role in our success and are deserving of respect. What our team members do is important and valuable, and we ensure our actions match their hard work and dedication.

- Hard Work

The work we do isn’t always easy but it serves an important purpose – helping our clients make the products that serve our communities every day. We do the work not because we have to, but because we want to.

Our Benefits

- Competitive Pay

- Hiring Bonuses

- Health Insurance

- Vision Insurance

- Dental Insurance

- Short & Long-Term Disability

- Life Insurance

- 401(K) with Company Match

- Training Support

- Internal Promotions

- Professional Development Opportunities

Our Culture

- Employee Luncheons

- Team Activities

- On-Site Job Training

- Employee Spotlight Recognition

- Employee Anniversary Recognition

- Monthly Charity Support

- Monthly Prizes

- Sjoberg SWAG

- Regular Business Updates

- Holiday Parties

We’re Always Looking to Expand Our Team!

We proudly work with a wide range of commercial, industrial, and residential OEMs and offer first and second shift options to help meet growing demand. Even if you have very little or no experience operating state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment and robotics, if you have a willingness to learn, we’re happy to give you hands-on, on-the-job training!

Brake Press Operator

Read and interpret blueprint specifications for the purpose of folding production parts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.

- Read and interpret blueprint specifications for the purpose of folding production parts.

- Set up; program and operate brake press equipment.

- Position and accurately orient workpieces in machines.

- Use a variety of precision measuring devices to set-up and adjust work and verify conformance of work to specifications.

- Follow all clean up and housekeeping procedures.

- Comply with all quality and safety requirements.

Shift: 1st & 2nd

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

- Requires education generally equivalent to a High School Diploma

- 2 or more years’ experience

- Requires basic shop math

- Experience with a variety of materials and programming desired

- Familiarity with Safan brake press machines desired

- Must perform metric conversions.

- Requires good oral and written communication skills to interact with coworkers.

- Must be able to read and understand blueprints, specifications, and routings.

Physical Demands

(The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The phrases “occasionally,” “regularly,” and “frequently” correspond to the following definitions: “Occasionally” means up to 1/3 of working time, “regularly” means between 1/3 and 2/3 of working time, and “frequently” means 2/3 and more working time).

While performing the duties and responsibilities of this position, the employee is occasionally required to walk, use foot/feet to operate machine, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, reach above shoulders and move from place to place. The incumbent will regularly stand, and talk and listen and will frequently use hands to finger, handle, or touch. Specific vision requirements for this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

During the performance of his/her work duties, the incumbent will be required to occasionally push/pull/drag up to 50 pounds and will frequently push/pull/drag up to 25 pounds such as moving parts from material storage and moving parts in and out of work area.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee works in a factory environment and is occasionally exposed to wet, humid conditions and chemicals. He/she is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and frequently works near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is loud.

The above statement reflects the general details necessary to describe the principal functions of the occupation described and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work that may be inherent in the occupation.