Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Key skills

A typical day

• •Measure completed workpieces to verify conformance to specifications, using micrometers, gauges, calipers, templates, or rulers.
• •Examine completed workpieces for defects, such as chipped edges or marred surfaces and sort defective pieces according to types of flaws.
• •Read work orders or production schedules to determine specifications, such as materials to be used, locations of cutting lines, or dimensions and tolerances.
• •Start machines, monitor their operations, and record operational data.
• •Set up, operate, or tend machines to saw, cut, shear, slit, punch, crimp, notch, bend, or straighten metal or plastic material.

Fields of study

Any field