Set up, operate, or tend machines, such as glass forming machines, plodder machines, and tuber machines, to shape and form products, such as glassware, food, rubber, soap, brick, tile, clay, wax, tobacco, or cosmetics.
<ul><li>Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, and temperatures, and amounts, dimensions, and flow of materials or ingredients.</li><li>Examine, measure, and weigh materials or products to verify conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as templates, micrometers, or scales.</li><li>Press control buttons to activate machinery and equipment.</li><li>Monitor machine operations and observe lights and gauges to detect malfunctions.</li><li>Record and maintain production data, such as meter readings, and quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced.</li><li>Notify supervisors when extruded filaments fail to meet standards.</li><li>Clear jams, and remove defective or substandard materials or products.</li><li>Review work orders, specifications, or instructions to determine materials, ingredients, procedures, components, settings, and adjustments for extruding, forming, pressing, or compacting machines.</li><li>Turn controls to adjust machine functions, such as regulating air pressure, creating vacuums, and adjusting coolant flow.</li><li>Clean dies, arbors, compression chambers, and molds, using swabs, sponges, or air hoses.</li><li>Synchronize speeds of sections of machines when producing products involving several steps or processes.</li><li>Move materials, supplies, components, and finished products between storage and work areas, using work aids such as racks, hoists, and handtrucks.</li></ul>