Operate forging tongs

Description

Operate the appropriate forging tools and equipment safely, including forging tongs for handling and moving hot metal workpieces during forging processes.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 2 occupations
  • Optional in 2 occupations
  • Total: 4 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)

Essential for

  • Hydraulic forging press worker
    Hydraulic forging press workers set up and tend hydraulic forging presses, designed to shape ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces including pipes, tubes and hollow profiles and…
  • Drop forging hammer worker
    Drop forging hammer workers utilise forging machinery and equipment, specifically machined hammers, in order to form ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces to their desired shape…

Optional for

  • Upsetting machine operator
    Upsetting machine operators set up and tend upsetting machines, primarily crank presses, designed to form through forging processes metal workpieces, usually wires, rods, or bars, …
  • Mechanical forging press worker
    Mechanical forging press workers set up and tend mechanical forging presses, designed to shape ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces including pipes, tubes and hollow profiles a…

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Last updated on February 18, 2026

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