CNC Press Brake Technician — Sheet Metal Forming
Location: Greenwood, IN | Shifts: 1st and 3rd
What the workday looks like
You’ll arrive to a temperature-controlled shop and head straight to your press brake cell. After reviewing blueprints and operation sheets, you’ll program and set up the machine, selecting the correct tooling for standard bends, large radii, and offsets. Throughout the run, you’ll verify dimensions with calipers (dial and vernier), micrometers, squares, and height gauges, documenting results per AQL guidelines and work instructions. If any dimensions stray, you’ll alert your supervisor or the setup lead and adjust as needed.
Between batches, you’ll keep accurate counts for good parts and scrap, complete production paperwork, and enter job details into the Traverse Manufacturing System. You’ll keep your tools organized, your work area clean, and call out any equipment issues immediately. At the end of the shift, you’ll leave the station ready for the next run.
Key responsibilities
- Interpret blueprints and operation sheets to plan forming operations
- Set up and operate the press brake to produce parts to specification
- Execute forming tasks including offsets, large radii, and standard bends
- Perform in-process inspections using calipers, micrometers, squares, and height gauges per AQL/work instructions
- Report dimensional nonconformances to the supervisor or setup person
- Track finished and scrapped quantities with precision
- Complete production records and enter data in the Traverse Manufacturing System
- Maintain a clean, orderly, and safe workstation; report malfunctions immediately
What you bring
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred
- 1+ year of related press brake or metal forming experience/training
- Ability to follow written, verbal, and diagrammed instructions
- Strong shop math: fractions, decimals, whole numbers, and unit conversions
- Skilled in reading blueprints and operation sheets
- Proven capability to set up and run a press brake; enter/maintain data in the Traverse Manufacturing System
- Comfort lifting up to 50 lbs
Benefits and rewards
- Competitive pay with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid vacation plus 10 paid holidays annually
- Employer-funded Basic Life and AD&D insurance
- Employer-funded Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Tuition reimbursement for continued learning
- Robust 401(k) with company match
- Generous employee referral bonuses
- Performance-driven culture with real advancement opportunities
- Temperature-controlled facility
- Community involvement and giving initiatives
- Additional resources including travel assistance and EAP
Core proficiencies
- GD&T
- CNC machine setup and changeover
- Precision measurement and inspection
- Shop math
- Blueprint reading
Equipment you’ll operate