# Press Operator

Overview Consider joining the Pennex family as a Press Operator at our Wellsville, PA location. The Press Operator operates a hydraulic extrusion press and an extrusion puller in a safe and efficient manner ensuring proper quality and highest productivity standards are met. Responsibilities Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Sets billet length, furnace temperature controls, ram speed and puller program for optimum production and quality. Watches metal for quality problems, such as pick up, tear out and die lines. Makes appropriate changes to operating set up to try to correct. Reports problems and works with Foremen and Lead Person to improve productivity/quality. Assists lead out position with set ups, tear downs and changeovers. Rolls logs when needed. Minimizes downtime during die changeover by having bolster and next die ready for production. Ensures lead out knows what the next die change is, when it is and what is needed to complete set up. Changes dummy blocks as directed by management. Checks dies and bolsters ensuring set up properly before starting that job. Assists with set up of water boxes, water pans, cooling fans and other special requirements for various alloys.

- **Id**: 3364270
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pennex-press-operator>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Wellsville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-27T22:26:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T11:02:31Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 10
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6955
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Professional development, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Manufacturing, Science & Engineering, Plastics & Polymers

## Company

- **Id**: 4420133
- **Name**: Pennex
- **Domain**: pennex.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pennex-2>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 40000
- **Max usd**: 70000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 7889

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 10

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-27T22:26:04Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 18; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 18 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 37
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.676
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 10
- **Expected fill days**: 8
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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