Career Details :: Heating Equipment Setters and Set-Up Operators, Metal and Plastic
Description
Set up or set up and operate heating equipment, such as heat-treating furnaces, flame-hardening machines, and induction machines, that anneal or heat-treat metal objects.
Experience
Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
Education
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.
Tasks
- Instruct new workers in machine operation.
- Lights gas burners and adjusts flow of gas and coolant water.
- Sets frequency of current and automatic timer.
- Replaces worn dial-feed, burner, and conveyor parts, using hand tools.
- Visually examines or tests objects, using hardness testing equipment, to determine flame temperature and degree of hardness.
- Starts conveyors and dial feeder plates, and turns setscrews in nozzles to direct flames that anneal specific area of object.
- Reads work order to determine processing specifications.
- Mounts fixtures and industrial coil on machine and workpieces in fixture, using hand tools.
- Estimates flame temperature and heating cycle based on degree of hardness required and metal to be treated.
- Crushes random samples between fingers to determine hardness.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc.
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Degree of Automation
- Indoors
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Hazardous Equipment
- Consequence of Error
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