Set up Operator

Cleveland-Cliffs•Bowling Green, KY

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Cannon Automotive Solutions, a division of Cleveland-Cliffs Tooling and Stamping, is hiring a Set up Operator at its Bowling Green, Kentucky stamping facility. The role is responsible for changing over various tonnage presses and maintaining dies so they remain clean and in proper working condition. The ideal candidate has prior cold-stamping experience, is self-motivated, and can thrive in a fast-paced environment. The Set up Operator changes large and small press dies, conducts test runs and makes adjustments to ensure parts meet specifications, and performs machining, inspection, measuring, shaping, and finishing work on dies and parts. The role involves interpreting blueprints and specifications, selecting metals, and using a variety of hand tools, power tools, machine tools, and lifting and positioning equipment. Cleveland-Cliffs offers a compensation and benefits package that includes top pay with variable compensation opportunity, health insurance, a retirement plan, education assistance, paid time off, and career advancement opportunities. The company provides reasonable accommodation during the employment process and is an equal opportunity, drug-free workplace. Pre-employment screening is a condition of employment.

Requirements

Professional technical training in die setting or equivalent experience.
Experience with high-tonnage press operation and die setting.

Nice To Haves

Ability to read work orders and blueprints.
Ability to work with medium to heavy tools and equipment.
Ability to lift up to 23 kg (50 lbs).
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while performing repetitive tasks.
Ability to find and document relevant information, and knowledge of computers.
Ability to retain information and communicate effectively.
Prior experience in cold stamping.

Responsibilities

Change large and small press dies on the plant floor and maintain and care for dies to keep them clean and in proper working condition.
Conduct test runs with completed tools or dies, ensuring parts meet specifications and adjusting as necessary.
Use tools such as power saws, power shears, rules, and hand tools.
Use hoists, vises, V-blocks, or angle plates to lift, position, and secure machined parts.
Inspect finished dies for smoothness, contour conformity, and defects.
Measure, mark, and scribe metal for machining using instruments such as protractors, micrometers, scribes, and rulers.
Select metals based on properties such as hardness and heat tolerance.
Set up and operate conventional or CNC machine tools, including lathes, milling machines, and grinders, to shape parts to prescribed dimensions and finishes.
Smooth and polish flat and contoured surfaces using scrapers, abrasive stones, files, emery cloths, or power grinders.
Study blueprints, sketches, models, and specifications to plan fabrication sequences for tools, dies, or assemblies.
Visualize and compute assembly dimensions, sizes, shapes, and tolerances based on specifications.