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Verified Pay check_circle $18 - $25 per hour
Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Glendale Heights, IL
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Job Description

Job Description

Press Brake Operator


Requirements:

  • High school diploma or equivalent preferred
  • 4 years of experience in press brake operations
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic job shop environment
  • Organized, detail oriented, and dependable
  • Ability to solve problems
  • High school diploma or GED


Job Duties:

  • Perform all duties of an Entry-Level Press Brake Operator
  • Program, set up and operate press brake to produce new parts meeting specifications, including customer and internal requirements
  • Interpret work orders, drawings, and blueprints
  • Load the machine with sheet metal for production and adjust machine speeds as necessary
  • Measure completed work pieces to verify conformance to specifications using micrometers, gauges, calipers, templates and rulers
  • Run bend and forming operations using standard and custom punches
  • Use a CNC controller to input information into the machine
  • Perform complex programming using all features of the press brake
  • Resolve problems relating to materials, operations, quality or other factors as they arise, including routine and minor maintenance activities according to procedures, ensuring machine is calibrated, cleaned, and operating correctly
  • Complete and maintain paperwork
  • Identify assembly parts
  • Set up light gauge metal
  • Configure bend allowances for sheet metal
  • Other duties as assigned


Physical Demands:

  • 20/20 vision with or without correction, use of hands 100% of the time, stand, bend, stoop, twist, turn.
  • Must occasionally lift and /or move up to 50 lbs


Department PPE:

  • Hearing Protection
  • Safety Glasses
  • Steel Toed Shoes
  • Gloves
  • Safety Belt


Temporary to Hire

Monday-Friday plus Saturdays when needed

Some OT required

2:30pm-10:30pm

$18.00-25.00/hr DOE

Company Description
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Our policy of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train and promote persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, handicap or any other protected status.

Company Description

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. \r\n\r\nOur policy of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train and promote persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, handicap or any other protected status.

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Posting ID: 1271499598 Posted: 2026-06-24 Job Title: Press Brake Operator