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Career Details :: Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Description
Set up, operate, or tend machines to roll steel or plastic forming bends, beads, knurls, rolls, or plate or to flatten, temper, or reduce gauge of material.
Experience
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful in these occupations, but usually is not needed. For example, a drywall installer might benefit from experience installing drywall, but an inexperienced person could still learn to be an installer with little difficulty.
Education
These occupations usually require a high school diploma and may require some vocational training or job-related course work. In some cases, an associate's or bachelor's degree could be needed.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees.
Tasks
- Disassembles sizing mills removed from rolling line, and sorts and stores parts.
- Removes scratches and polishes roll surface, using polishing stone and electric buffer.
- Signals and assists other workers to remove and position equipment, fill hoppers, and feed materials into machine.
- Starts operation of rolling and milling machines to flatten, temper, form, and reduce sheet metal sections and produce steel strips.
- Reads rolling order and mill schedules to determine setup specifications, work sequence, product dimensions, and installation procedures.
- Records mill production on schedule sheet.
- Positions, aligns, and secures arbor, spindle, coils, mandrel, dies, and slitting knives onto machine.
- Examines, inspects, measures, and feels raw materials and finished product to verify conformance to specifications, visually or using measurement instruments.
- Resets, adjusts, and corrects machine setup to reduce thickness, reshape products, and eliminate product defects.
- Sets distance points between rolls, guides, meters, and stops, according to specifications.
- Manipulates controls and observes dial indicators to monitor, adjust, and regulate speed of machine mechanisms.
- Monitors machine cycles and mill operation to detect jamming and to ensure fabricated products conform to specifications.
- Calculates draft space and roll speed for each mill stand to plan rolling sequence and specified dimensions and temper.
- Activates shear and grinder to trim workpiece, cut steel strips, and monitor forming of gears to specified length and diameter.
- Fills oil cups, adjusts valves, and observes gauges to control flow of metal coolant and lubricants onto workpiece.
- Installs equipment, such as guides, guards, gears, cooling equipment, and rolls, using hand tools.
- Selects rolls, dies, roll stands, and chucks from data charts to form specified contours and to fabricate products.
- Threads or feeds sheets or rods through rolling mechanism, or starts and controls mechanism that automatically feeds steel into rollers.
- Directs and trains other workers to change rolls, operate mill equipment, remove coils and cobbles, and band and load material.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Degree of Automation
- Indoors
- Hazardous Equipment
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Consequence of Error
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