A professional who sets up and operates power press to assemble metal, plastic, rubber, or glass products by crimping, shaping, locking, staking, or press fitting. Respnsibilities include:

• Installs specified dies on machine bed and ram, using measuring instruments and handtools.
• Positions and clamps holding fixtures to machine bed, using sample workpiece, template, rule, and gauge.
• Adjusts setscrews to regulate stroke of ram.
• Aligns parts between dies or positions them against fixtures on machine.
• Moves controls to lower ram that bends, clinches, or forces parts together.
• May operate machine to separate parts.
• May set up and operate machine to punch, cut, face, chamfer, or compress parts preparatory to assembly.
• May install gears and cams to synchronize action of multiple ram, feed, and positioning action of automatic presses.