Straightening Press Operator Salary

• Operates power press equipped with pressure blocks or dies to straighten warped or bent metal objects, such as plates, structural castings, shapes, forgings, and shafts to specified dimensions: examines workpiece to locate defects, using such devices as straightedge, deflection gauge, template, and square.
• Positions and locks specified pressure blocks, or die, into ram of machine, or positions shims under high spots of workpiece.
• Lifts and positions workpiece into bed of machine manually or using jib or crane.
• Starts ram which presses out bent or high spots of workpiece.
• Reexamines and repositions workpiece, changing shims for each pass until workpiece conforms with specifications.
• May turn levers or handwheels to adjust depth and pressure of ram.
• May preheat metal, using heating furnace or hand torch and clean dies between pressings, using compressed air, oil, and brush.
• May tend machine equipped with preset dies to bend metal to specified shapes.
• May grind rough edges from finished workpiece, using portable hand grinder.
• May be designated according to part straightened as barrel straightener ii; crankshaft straightener; gear straightener; or according to type press operated as gag-press straightener.

Straightening Press Operator Job Prevalence in the United States

Job family: Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators

Job family population: 383,480

Estimated population of Straightening Press Operator jobs: 1,714

Rate of error: 0.8%