Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Read work orders to determine production specifications and information.
• Observe operation of equipment to ensure continuity of flow, safety, and efficient operation, and to detect malfunctions.
• Move controls to start, stop, or adjust machinery and equipment that crushes, grinds, polishes, or blends materials.
• Record data from operations, testing, and production on specified forms.
• Examine materials, ingredients, or products visually or with hands, in order to ensure conformance to established standards.
• Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, and/or products at specified intervals to ensure conformance to requirements.
• Clean, adjust and maintain equipment, using hand tools.
• Notify supervisors of needed repairs.
• Set mill gauges to specified fineness of grind.
• Reject defective products and readjust equipment to eliminate problems.
• Clean work areas.
• Transfer materials, supplies, and products between work areas, using moving equipment and hand tools.
• Dislodge and clear jammed materials or other items from machinery and equipment, using hand tools.
• Inspect chains, belts, and scrolls for signs of wear.
• Tend accessory equipment such as pumps and conveyors in order to move materials or ingredients through production processes.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Test samples of materials or products to ensure compliance with specifications, using test equipment.
• Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory testing.
• Mark bins as to types of mixtures stored.
• Turn valves to regulate the moisture contents of materials.
• Load materials into machinery and equipment, using hand tools.
• Add or mix chemicals and ingredients for processing, using hand tools or other devices.
• Break mixtures to size, using picks.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™ 16.0.