Occupation Atlasvacuum forming machine operator
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/6e18b923-7c5f-42d7-8ff0-de8d8ba30dbf
vacuum forming machine operator
Vacuum forming machine operators tend, control, and maintain machines that heat sheets of plastic before moving them around a mould, using vacuum-suction; when these sheets become cool, they are permanently set in the shape of the mould.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (15)
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.
- coating substances
- consult technical resources
- control temperature
- extract products from moulds
- heat up vacuum forming medium
- monitor gauge
- monitor processing environment conditions
- operate vacuum machines
- optimise production processes parameters
- prepare mould for vacuum forming
- quality standards
- set up the controller of a machine
- supply machine
- troubleshoot
- use personal protection equipment
Optional (16)
- clean equipment
- control production flow remotely
- create vacuum forming mould
- cut vacuum formed workpiece
- inspect quality of products
- keep records of work progress
- maintain equipment
- maintain moulds
- manage waste
- manufacturing of daily use goods
- manufacturing of sports equipment
- perform product testing
- perform test run
- repair mould defects
- report defective manufacturing materials
- solve technical problems
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