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Press Brake Operator

Kelly and Careers
Birmingham, AL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/20/2026
Are you ready to shape the future of manufacturing? We’re seeking an enthusiastic and skilled Brake Press Operator to join our team! If you thrive in a hands-on environment and enjoy customizing metal materials with precision, this is the role for you.


Brake Press Operator – Manufacturing Division
Temp to Hire
Pay Range: $18–$22/hr


What You’ll Do:
Operate Press Machinery: Run electrically powered industrial machines to create, shape, and customize metal materials.

  • Quality Assurance: Perform inspections on finished pieces to ensure quality and conformity, correcting inconsistencies as needed.
  • Reporting & Communication: Detect and report defective materials or questionable conditions to your supervisor.
  • Workplace Safety: Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work area by following prescribed safety regulations.
  • Preventative Maintenance: Perform regular maintenance on machines to keep our production running smoothly.

What We’re Looking For:

  • Motor Skills: Exemplary motor skills are essential—quickly and efficiently adjust multiple levers and settings on brake press machines.
  • Technical Knowledge: Strong analytical and mathematical skills to interpret drawings, templates, and blueprints accurately.
  • Attention to Detail: Ability to read gauges, tape measures, and other measurement tools.
  • Experience: Prior manufacturing experience in a press environment is a plus.

Work Environment:

  • Be prepared to work in a dynamic setting with exposure to odors, noise, dust, heat, cold, and moving mechanical parts.
  • The noise level can get loud—but with the vibrant energy of a real production floor!

Physical Demands:

  • Enjoy an active role that requires frequent standing, walking, bending, and kneeling.
  • Regularly lift and move items over 25 pounds.
  • Use specific vision abilities, including close and distance vision, color and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Ready to make a real impact? Join us and help create products that matter. Apply today and bring your skills to a team that values craftsmanship, safety, and innovation.
As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan.


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About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Salary : $18 - $22

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