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Career Details :: Cutters and Trimmers, Hand
Description
Use hand tools or hand-held power tools to cut and trim a variety of manufactured items, such as carpet, fabric, stone, glass, or rubber.
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
- Lowers table-mounted cutter, such as knife blade, cutting wheel, or saw, to cut items to specified size.
- Separates materials or products according to size, weight, type, condition, color, or shade.
- Reads work order to determine dimensions, cutting locations, and quantity to cut.
- Adjusts guides and stops to control depth and width of cuts.
- Cleans, treats, buffs, or polishes finished items, using grinder, brush, chisel, and cleaning solutions and polishing materials.
- Unrolls, lays out, attaches, or mounts material or item on cutting table or machine.
- Transports items to work or storage area by pushing or pulling carts.
- Marks cutting lines around pattern or template, or follows layout points, using square, rule, straightedge and chalk, pencil, or scribe.
- Counts or weighs and bundles items.
- Replaces or sharpens dulled cutting tools, such as saws.
- Folds or shapes materials, preparatory to or after cutting.
- Positions template or measures material to locate specified point of cut or to obtain maximum yield, using rule, scale, or pattern.
- Marks identification numbers, trademark, grade, marketing data, size, or model number on products.
- Routes items to provide cutouts for parts, using portable router, grinder, and hand tools.
- Cuts materials, such as textiles, food, and metal, using hand tools, portable power tools, or bench-mounted tools.
- Stacks cut items and loads them on racks, conveyors, or onto truck.
- Observes and marks or discards items with defects, such as spots, stains, scars, snags, chips, scratches, or unacceptable shape or finish.
Related Careers
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- Mold Makers, Hand
- Molding and Casting Workers
- Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers
- Precision Etchers and Engravers, Hand or Machine
- Precision Mold and Pattern Casters, except Nonferrous Metals
- Tool and Die Makers
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Indoors
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
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