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Machine Operator Skilled - 3rd Shift

2/20/2026

The Machine Operator is responsible for setting up and operating various machinery, including auto feeders, draw presses, sanders, and polishers, to produce high-quality cookware parts. This role involves making necessary adjustments to tooling and machinery to ensure quality requirements are met during production runs.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

11-50 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
For over 80 years, Regal Ware, Inc. has enriched lives by bringing families together. As a proud fourth-generation, family-owned company, we continue this tradition by acquiring brands that create exceptional kitchen experiences and accelerating their growth through The Regal Way—our strategic operating system of expert leadership and shared resources. Our divisions include SynergyOps, our manufacturing division, and Saladmaster, our direct sales division, both serving global markets through direct sales, retail, and e-commerce. With a legacy built on quality, innovation, and meaningful connections, Regal Ware continues to shape how the world cooks—and comes together.
About the Role

Description

The West Bend Company family brings over 100 years of experience to its clients providing high quality cookware products that meet and exceed expectations. We are experts in drawing and finishing high performance stainless steel. We believe the kitchen (and the family table) make up the hub of the home, where everyone belongs.

We are all working together to:

  • Support our divisions - when they grow, we grow
  • Positively impact the lives of over 1,000,000+ people each year with our innovative and entrepreneurial mindset
  • Create an environment where all employees can do their best work


You will love it here if you believe in the following:

  • Everybody matters
  • Do the right thing
  • We are in this together
  • Passion for our customers
  • Involved Solutions Provider
  • Service Built


If this sounds like the company for you, your seat at our West Bend Company family table awaits.

Your seat at the table: Machine Operator Skilled 3rd Shift

Machine Operator is responsible in the production process of making high quality cookware. In this seat you’ll set up and operate auto feeders (buffers and draw presses) auto buff machines, rotary and single head sanders, hydraulic presses, hilite sunray machines, brazers, and quick change, draw presses, impact presses and machines which apply satin or edge finish to a variety of parts and also polishes oil cores.

Salary: $24.10/h + $3.50/hour shift premium

Job Type: Full-Time

You will love this seat if you get, want, and have the capacity to:

  • Starts up machinery required for production.
  • Makes ready, installs, positions, adjusts, aligns, and removes all tooling, and other parts and fittings required to operate machines such as listed above, also changes belts, finishing wheels, etc.
  • Makes final and in-process adjustments to assure quality requirements are met.
  • Holds part against wheel and manipulates part so as to achieve the proper satin/polish finish or finishes sanding process using belt or disc sander.
  • Operates machines by loading and unloading mandrels, dies and chucks. Machines are generally activated by pressing buttons.
  • Maintains equipment and tooling and takes appropriate corrective action if required.
  • Checks products for flaws, scratches, proper finish, and other defects and performs minor lubrication.
  • Refills coolant tank and operates oil fill station to fill oil cores.
  • Moves material to and from the work area.
  • Keeps a clean and safe work area.
  • Maintain washers.


This seat reports to: Production Supervisor

There are so many benefits to being a part of the West Bend Company Team! Our benefits package is built with you and your family in mind – and that starts with the things that are most important to you – your health, your lifestyle, and your future. Learn more at Cookware Manufacturing Careers in West Bend, WI | West Bend Company

*West Bend Company is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. 

Requirements

 We need this seat to have:

  • Adequate math skills.
  • Computer knowledge.
  • Good Communication skills.
  • Can self-direct.
  • Mechanically inclined.
Key Skills
Machine OperationTooling SetupMachine AdjustmentQuality AssuranceEquipment MaintenanceMaterial HandlingSafety ComplianceMath SkillsComputer KnowledgeCommunication SkillsSelf-DirectionMechanical Aptitude
Categories
ManufacturingTrades
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