Occupation Atlasextrusion machine operator
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a0f9903e-2ba5-4b9d-bb0a-a8646db15221
extrusion machine operator
Extrusion machine operators set up, monitor and maintain machines which heat or melt raw materials, and pull or push the heated material through a shaped die to form it into a continuous profile with a preset cross section such as tubes, pipes and sheeting. They may also clean and maintain the equipment.
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Job Zone
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- 2
- 3
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Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed
Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RCIRealistic · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic6.50
- C Conventional4.05
- I Investigative2.21
- E Enterprising1.41
- A Artistic1.27
- S Social1.22
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers (51-6091.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (14)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- consult technical resources
- dies
- ensure equipment availability
- extrusion processes
- monitor automated machines
- monitor moving workpiece in a machine
- perform test run
- quality standards
- remove inadequate workpieces
- remove processed workpiece
- replace die
- set up the controller of a machine
- supply machine
- troubleshoot
Optional (34)
- advise on machinery malfunctions
- check quality of raw materials
- ferrous metal processing
- interpret geometric dimensions and tolerances
- manufacturing of cutlery
- manufacturing of door furniture from metal
- manufacturing of light metal packaging
- manufacturing of metal assembly products
- manufacturing of metal household articles
- manufacturing of steam generators
- manufacturing of tools
- manufacturing of weapons and ammunition
- mark processed workpiece
- metal forming technologies
- monitor conveyor belt
- monitor gauge
- monitor stock level
- operate lifting equipment
- perform machine maintenance
- perform product testing
- program a CNC controller
- quality and cycle time optimisation
- read standard blueprints
- record production data for quality control
- solve technical problems
- statistical process control
- tend cold extrusion machine
- tend hot extrusion machine
- types of metal
- types of metal manufacturing processes
- types of plastic
- use CAM software
- wear appropriate protective gear
- work ergonomically
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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