Press Technician

Job Posting Title

Press Technician

Job Description Summary

The Press Technician is responsible for keeping the line up and running and troubleshooting quality, providing maintenance to the presses and identifying and correcting the issues with the conveyors.

Job Description:

Job Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Operate automatic presses that forge steel.
• Performs quality inspection of manufactured parts.
• Using hand tools and pneumatic tools for machine operation and maintenance tasks.
• Changing and adjusting tools within the machine for quality improvements or production changeovers.
• Maintain accurate inventories regarding quantities, weights, and locations.
• Maintain and manage materials on the shop floor.
• Completing machine maintenance to reduce downtime and ensure manufacturing efficiency and effectiveness.
• Support production in the North Plant.
• Create shipment paperwork.
• Ability to scrap non-conforming product per quality direction
• Aid production to ensure minimal downtime
• Reading and interpreting blueprints to understand part specifications and adjusting machine setup as necessary.
• Occasionally operating an overhead crane for heavy tooling changeover.
• Completing additional tasks as required to support manufacturing operations.

Required Skills and Education

Internal candidates must be a level 3 GP to promote.

About Dauch:

Dauch Corporation is a premier Driveline and Metal Forming supplier serving the global automotive industry with a powertrain-agnostic product portfolio that supports electric, hybrid, and internal combustion vehicles. The company is headquartered in Detroit, MI, with operations that span 24 countries and more than 175 locations. Formed through the acquisition of Dowlais Group plc and its subsidiaries - GKN Automotive and GKN Powder Metallurgy, Dauch unites deep engineering roots with global manufacturing capabilities and an entrepreneurial spirit to move mobility forward. Visit www.dauch.com to learn more.

Dauch will not discriminate against any Associate or applicant for employment because of age, race, color, gender, religion, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, or other characteristic protected by law. Dauch will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that Associates are treated equally during employment, without regard to their age, race, color, gender, religion, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, or other characteristic protected by law. For the Disabled Job Seeker: We offer reasonable accommodations for qualified disabled individuals who are applicants for employment. To request assistance or accommodations, please e-mail TalentAcquisition@aam.com. Dauch is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.