Press Brake Operator
Des Plaines, Illinois
Type: Temp to Hire
Job ID: 9136
Manufacturing/Production
Salary: $17$0 Per Hour
Posted Date: 06/17/2026
Job Description
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Press Brake Operator
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred
- 4 years of experience in press brake operations
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic job shop environment
- Organized, detail oriented, and dependable
- Ability to solve problems
- High school diploma or GED
Job Duties:
- Perform all duties of an Entry-Level Press Brake Operator
- Program, set up and operate press brake to produce new parts meeting specifications, including customer and internal requirements
- Interpret work orders, drawings, and blueprints
- Load the machine with sheet metal for production and adjust machine speeds as necessary
- Measure completed work pieces to verify conformance to specifications using micrometers, gauges, calipers, templates and rulers
- Run bend and forming operations using standard and custom punches
- Use a CNC controller to input information into the machine
- Perform complex programming using all features of the press brake
- Resolve problems relating to materials, operations, quality or other factors as they arise, including routine and minor maintenance activities according to procedures, ensuring machine is calibrated, cleaned, and operating correctly
- Complete and maintain paperwork
- Identify assembly parts
- Set up light gauge metal
- Configure bend allowances for sheet metal
- Other duties as assigned
Physical Demands:
- 20/20 vision with or without correction, use of hands 100% of the time, stand, bend, stoop, twist, turn.
- Must occasionally lift and /or move up to 50 lbs
Department PPE:
- Hearing Protection
- Safety Glasses
- Steel Toed Shoes
- Gloves
- Safety Belt
Temporary to Hire
Monday-Friday plus Saturdays when needed
Some OT required
2:30pm-10:30pm
$17.00-25.00/hr DOE
Des Plaines, IL 60016
Please send resumes to hanover@elitestaffinginc.com
All employees of Elite Staffing must be 18 years or older and authorized to work in the United States.
Elite Staffing, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our policy of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train and promote persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, handicap or any other protected status.
Elite Staffing offers the following benefit programs for your participation: Medical, Dental, Vision, Voluntary Benefits, 401k Retirement Plan, and Commuter benefits.
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