Press Setter/Operator

Marshall Harmony; Redditch; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£14.50 per hour

Four‑day work week

Friday off

25 days’ holiday

Death in Service cover

Smart Health Virtual GP

Bereavement counselling

Probate support

Job summary

Marshall Harmony is seeking an experienced Power Press Setter/Operator for a four‑day week (39 hours) Monday to Thursday, 6:00am–4:15pm, with Fridays off. You’ll set and adjust a range of tooling across mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic presses, read drawings, and carry out routine quality checks to ensure parts meet drawing specifications.

Hold the relevant Power Press Setter certificates and be comfortable with shop-floor quality records.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Power Press Setter/Operator.
• Hold the relevant Power Press Setter certificates.
• Ability to read engineering/tooling and component drawings.
• Experience working to IATF 16949, ISO 9001, AS 9100 and ISO 14001 standards.

Responsibilities

• Set and change tooling for forming, piercing, blanking, roll forming, cropping and progression tooling.
• Operate across mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic power presses with manual and coil feeding systems.
• Analyse problems, adjust processes, and ensure components meet drawings.
• Carry out routine quality checks using workshop measuring equipment and maintain production/inspection records.
• Perform preventative maintenance and sign off press guards, ensuring safe working conditions.

Skills

Power Press setting

Problem solving

Quality checks

Reading drawings

Health & safety

Job description

Four days at work. Three days off. Every single week.

If you're an experienced Power Press Setter/Operator, you probably don't need someone explaining how to set a press to you.

You know when a tool isn't running quite right. You can look at a component and spot something others might miss. And when there's a problem with the tooling or press, your first instinct is to work out why rather than wait for somebody else to sort it.

If that sounds like you, this Power Press Setter/Operator role is worth a closer look.

You'll work 39 hours across Monday to Thursday, 6:00am to 4:15pm, which means Friday is yours.

Every week.

As a Power Press Setter/Operator, you'll be trusted to change and set a varied range of press tools, including forming, piercing, blanking, roll forming, cropping and progression tooling.

You'll be working across different-sized mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic power presses, using both manual and coil feeding systems.

This isn't simply an operator role.

They need a Power Press Setter/Operator who understands the setting side properly. Someone who can analyse a problem, make the right adjustments, and get the press producing components accurately to drawing specification. Quality matters here too.

You'll carry out your own routine quality checks, using standard workshop measuring equipment including shadow graphs. So you'll need to be comfortable reading engineering, tooling and component drawings and confident checking that what you've produced is right.

There's also an element of preventative maintenance, checking and signing off press guards and keeping accurate production and inspection records.

You'll already have previous experience as a Power Press Setter/Operator and, importantly, hold the relevant Power Press Setter certificates.

Experience working within environments operating to IATF 16949, ISO 9001, AS 9100 and ISO 14001 standards will stand you in good stead.

But experience is only part of it.

You're someone who takes ownership of your machine and your working area. Good housekeeping isn't something you leave until the end of the week. You work safely, follow PPE and health and safety procedures, and take pride in leaving things as they should be.

You can work as part of the team, but you don't need somebody looking over your shoulder all day either.

And when overtime is needed, you're prepared to muck in.

What do you get in return?

• 39-hour, four-day working week
• £14.50p/h
• Monday to Thursday, 6:00am to 4:15pm
• Every Friday off
• 25 days' holiday, excluding statutory/public holidays
• Death in Service cover at 2 x salary
• Smart Health Virtual GP, including mental health support
• Bereavement counselling and probate support

If you're an experienced Power Press Setter/Operator who knows how to set tooling properly, solve problems and produce quality work without needing to be micromanaged, this could give you something your current Power Press Setter/Operator role might not.

A three-day weekend. Every week.

This role is exclusive to Marshall Harmony - you won't be contacted by any third parties.