Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders

Key skills

A typical day

• •Add specified amounts of chemicals to equipment at required times to maintain solution levels and concentrations.
• •Observe machine operations, gauges, or thermometers, and adjust controls to maintain specified conditions.
• •Set controls to regulate temperature and length of cycles, and start conveyors, pumps, agitators, and machines.
• •Drain, clean, and refill machines or tanks at designated intervals, using cleaning solutions or water.
• •Operate or tend machines to wash and remove impurities from items such as barrels or kegs, glass products, tin plate surfaces, dried fruit, pulp, animal stock, coal, manufactured articles, plastic, or rubber.

Fields of study

Any field