A professional who tends closed-die power press that produces metal forgings. Respnsibilities include:

• Pulls workpiece from furnace, when color of workpiece indicates forging temperature, and positions it on lower die, using tongs.
• Moves controls to lower ram that compresses metal to shape of die impressions.
• May move workpiece through series of dies for progressively finer detail.
• May tend press to emboss designs on metal or compress and smooth surface of metal blanks or rough forgings and be designated Coining-Press Operator.
• May tend press that twists forging to form journals and counterweights on crankshafts to specified degree of eccentricity and be designated Twisting-Press Operator.