Occupational Employment Statistics

DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA

51-4022 Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Occupational Description:
Set up, operate, or tend forging machines to taper, shape, or form metal or plastic parts.

Occupational Employment Statistics(OES) Wage Data
First Quarter 2022

Geography	Employment	Emp SE*	Percentiles
Geography	Employment	Emp SE*	Mean	10th	25th	Median	75th	90th
Central Minnesota	10	3	$24.43/hr	$19.30/hr	$19.54/hr	$21.46/hr	$31.11/hr	$31.11/hr

Leading Industries for Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industry	OES Employment (Statewide)	OES Median Wage (Statewide)
Manufacturing	60	$21.46/hr

Other Regional Data for Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Geography	Employment	Median Wage	Projections % Change -10-
Northeast Minnesota	N/A	N/A	N/A
Northwest Minnesota	N/A	N/A	N/A
Southeast Minnesota	N/A	N/A	N/A
Southwest Minnesota	N/A	N/A	N/A
Duluth MN-WI MSA	N/A	N/A	N/A
Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington MN-WI MSA	N/A	N/A	N/A
Rochester MN MSA	N/A	N/A	N/A
St Cloud MN MSA	N/A	N/A	N/A
Northwest Balance of State	N/A	N/A	N/A
Northeast Balance of State	N/A	N/A	N/A
Southwest Balance of State	N/A	N/A	N/A
Southeast Balance of State	N/A	N/A	N/A
Central Minnesota	10	$21.46/hr	-17.1%
Seven County Mpls-St Paul, MN	30	$21.46/hr	N/A
Minnesota	60	$21.46/hr	N/A

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Occupations	Employment	Median Wage	Projections % Change 2020-2030
Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic	280	$19.39/hr	-15.0%
Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic	990	$19.45/hr	-4.9%
Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand	140	$19.49/hr	-11.4%
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders	8,390	$19.35/hr	4.6%
Engine and Other Machine Assemblers	260	$22.77/hr	N/A
Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators	10	$31.00/hr	N/A
Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic	300	$25.36/hr	-1.7%
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers	9,930	$24.13/hr	-12.0%
Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic	50	$19.51/hr	7.4%
Patternmakers, Metal and Plastic	30	$37.30/hr	-4.2%

Task for Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Remove dies from machines when production runs are finished.
Confer with other workers about machine setups and operational specifications.
Select, align, and bolt positioning fixtures, stops, and specified dies to rams and anvils, forging rolls, or presses and hammers.
Set up, operate, or tend presses and forging machines to perform hot or cold forging by flattening, straightening, bending, cutting, piercing, or other operations to taper, shape, or form metal.
Install, adjust, and remove dies, synchronizing cams, forging hammers, and stop guides, using overhead cranes or other hoisting devices, and hand tools.
Sharpen cutting tools and drill bits, using bench grinders.
Trim and compress finished forgings to specified tolerances.
Start machines to produce sample workpieces, and observe operations to detect machine malfunctions and to verify that machine setups conform to specifications.
Position and move metal wires or workpieces through a series of dies that compress and shape stock to form die impressions.
Turn handles or knobs to set pressures and depths of ram strokes and to synchronize machine operations.