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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.5 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products S8.5.7 - operating metal, plastic or rubber forming equipment Tend mechanical forging press
Description
Tend a mechanical forging press, designed for forming hot or cold metal by use of a high energy force mechanically, monitor and operate it, according to regulations.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 2 occupations
- Total: 3 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- Mechanical forging press workerMechanical 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…
Optional for
- Hydraulic forging press workerHydraulic 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…
- Forge equipment technicianForge equipment technicians maintain and repair forge machinery such as presses and material handling equipment. They perform evaluations of the equipment, perform preventative mai…
Related skills
- Mechanical forging press parts
- Cold forging
- Hot forging
- Types of forging press
- Maintain hydraulic forging press
- Perform test run
- Perform machine maintenance
- Forging processes
- Consult technical resources
- Troubleshoot
- Monitor automated machines
- Non-ferrous metal processing
- Remove processed workpiece
- Manufacturing of steam generators
- Types of metal
Last updated on February 19, 2026
