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Career Details :: Cutting and Slicing Machine Operators and Tenders
Description
Operate or tend machines to cut or slice any of a wide variety of products or materials, such as tobacco, food, paper, roofing slate, glass, stone, rubber, cork, and insulating material.
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
- Adjusts feeding guides, blades, settings, or speed, to regulate specified depth, length, or width of material, using hand tools or hands.
- Cuts stock manually to prepare for machine cutting, using tools such as knife, cleaver, handsaw, or hammer and chisel.
- Installs or replaces cutting knives, blades, or wheels in cutting machine, using hand tools.
- Marks cutting lines, or identifying information on stock, using marking pencil, ruler, or scribe.
- Examines and measures stock to ensure conformance to specifications, using ruler, gauge, micrometer, or scale, and removes defects.
- Cleans and lubricates cutting machine, conveyors, blades, saws, or knives, using steam hose, scrapers, brush, or oil cans.
- Feeds stock into cutting machine, conveyor, or under cutting blades by threading, guiding, pushing, or turning handwheel.
- Sharpens cutting blades, knives, or saws, using file, bench grinder, or honing stone.
- Reads work order, or receives oral instructions, regarding specifications, for stock to be cut.
- Positions stock along cutting lines, or against stops, on bed of scoring or cutting machine.
- Observes cutting machine in operation, to ensure even flow of stock and to detect jamming, improper feeding, or foreign materials.
- Stacks and sorts cut material according to type and size for packaging, further processing, or shipping.
- Starts cutting machine by pressing button, pulling lever, or depressing pedal to cut stock, following markings or specifications.
- Stops cutting machine when necessary, by pulling lever, pressing button, or depressing pedal, and removes debris.
- Moves stock or scrap to and from machine, transporting either manually or using cart, hand truck, or lift truck.
- Records data concerning amount and type of stock cut from duties performed, including weight, length, and width.
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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
- Product Inspection
- Operation Monitoring
- Operation and Control
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
Frequent Work Context
- Hazardous Situations
- Degree of Automation
- Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment
- Hazardous Equipment
- Indoors
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