Step onto the fin line and make every stroke count
When your shift begins, you’re the person who brings the press line to life. You review the print, confirm tooling, stage the coil, and guide the setup so parts come off the die meeting spec on the first hit. Throughout the run, you adjust stroke, feed, and die protection to keep material flowing, verify dimensions with micrometers and calipers, and troubleshoot anything that threatens quality or uptime. You’re the calm in a fast-paced manufacturing environment—keeping people safe, meeting schedule, and driving down scrap.
In this role, you’ll model BAC’s values of Earning Trust, Embracing Responsibility, Showing Courage, and Driving Innovation while supporting our shared purpose of doing the right thing in the right way.
What you’ll do
- Run the line: Set up, operate, and monitor mechanical and hydraulic presses to engineering drawings, work instructions, and production plans.
- Own die changeovers: Safely install, remove, align, and secure dies using approved cranes, forklifts, and material-handling equipment; verify setup prior to operation.
- Feed and flow: Load and thread coil; set feeders, straighteners, feed length, sensors, and line controls for steady material flow.
- Dial it in: Adjust stroke, speed, tonnage, air pressure, shut height, feed settings, and die protection to hit spec.
- Verify quality: Perform first-piece and in-process inspections; use calipers, micrometers, and gauges to confirm dimensions and tolerances; flag nonconforming parts.
- Troubleshoot fast: Resolve press, tooling, material, feed, and sensor issues; escalate to Maintenance, Tooling, Quality, or Production leadership when needed to minimize downtime.
- Care for equipment: Inspect, clean, lubricate, and complete basic preventive maintenance; report wear, leaks, or damage.
- Protect people and product: Follow machine guarding, LOTO, PPE, and safe material-handling procedures; report unsafe conditions immediately.
- Hit the numbers: Meet output goals while limiting scrap, rework, waste, downtime, and changeover time.
- Document the work: Accurately record production, inspection, setups, downtime, scrap, and rework.
- Keep it organized: Maintain a clean, orderly workstation to 5S standards.
- Improve every day: Communicate across Production, Quality, Maintenance, Tooling, and Material Handling; participate in problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- Follow the standard: Adhere to company policies, standard work, operating procedures, quality requirements, and environmental and safety standards.
Knowledge and skills you bring
- Hands-on experience with mechanical/hydraulic presses, metal stamping, dies, and coil-fed lines.
- Proven ability to set up, operate, adjust, and monitor presses and related equipment safely.
- Die installation, alignment, securing, and changeover know-how.
- Capability to load, thread, align, and tune coil stock, feeders, straighteners, and line controls.
- Working understanding of press controls, automation, die protection sensors, tonnage, stroke, and air systems.
- Blueprint and technical drawing literacy; comfort with work instructions, tolerances, and specs.
- Measurement proficiency with calipers, micrometers, and gauges.
- First-piece and in-process inspection experience; ability to spot nonconforming product.
- Mechanical troubleshooting across press, die, material, feeding, and process issues.
- Basic preventive maintenance practices (inspection, cleaning, lubrication).
- Knowledge of machine guarding, LOTO, PPE, and safe material handling.
- Basic computer skills for machine controls and production reporting.
- Safe operation of overhead cranes, forklifts, and electric carts.
How you work
- Mechanical problem-solver with strong attention to detail, safety, and quality.
- Quick to recognize abnormalities and take appropriate action.
- Thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing setting with cross-functional teamwork.
- Dependable, accountable, and committed to continuous improvement and delivery.
Nature and scope
You’ll exercise sound technical judgment in setups, changeovers, adjustments, troubleshooting, and quality verification. Partner closely with Production, Quality, Maintenance, Tooling, and Material Handling to ensure safe, reliable operation and consistent performance. Identify and respond to equipment, tooling, material, process, and quality abnormalities within established procedures; escalate when additional expertise is required.
WORKING CONDITIONS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The working environment includes lifting up to 50lbs. Standing is to be expected up to 80% of the time. Additional activities include walking, reaching, bending, stooping, and sitting. Fine hand manipulation of controls is needed as well as hand eye coordination to perform changes. Working hours can include any of three shifts and generally are scheduled for forty hours a week. Some weekend overtime is to be expected. Working temperatures include both wide fluctuations within the plant as well as ambient outside temperatures.
You’re proficient in
- coil and feed-system setup experience
- die changeover experience
- fin press mechanical technician
- preventative maintenance experience
- press control experience