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Career Details :: Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Description
Set up, operate, or tend machines to mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.
Experience
No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.
Education
These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Tasks
- Reads work orders to ascertain production specifications and information.
- Loads materials into machinery and equipment, using hand tools.
- Dislodges and clears jammed materials, or other items, from machinery and equipment, using hand tools.
- Weighs or measures materials, ingredients, and products to ensure conformance to requirements.
- Cleans and maintains machinery, equipment, materials, and products, using hand tools.
- Tends accessory equipment, such as pumps and conveyors, to move materials or ingredients through production process.
- Tests samples of materials or products to ensure compliance with specifications, using test equipment.
- Transfers materials, supplies, and products between work areas, using moving equipment and hand tools.
- Operates or tends machines and equipment that crush, grind, polish, or blend materials.
- Adds or mixes chemicals and ingredients for processing, using hand tools or other devices.
- Records operational and production data on specified forms.
- Examines or feels materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to established standards.
- Observes production monitoring equipment to ensure safety and efficient operation.
- Moves controls to start, stop, or adjust machinery and equipment that crush, grind, polish, or blend materials.
- Collects samples of materials or products for laboratory testing.
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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
- Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment
- Indoors
- Common Protective or Safety Attire
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
Related Majors
| Major | Add to XapPack |
|---|---|
| Dairy/Livestock/Poultry Production Systems/Management |  [ add ] |
| Food/Agribusiness Management | [ add ] |
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