Skilled Trades
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Set up, operate, or tend machines to mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.
Median salary
$47,680
Typical range
$35k – $68k
Job outlook
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Education
Typical entry: No degree required
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Junior Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Entry / Junior
$35,000
~2 yrs to advance
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Established
$47,680
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Senior
$57,625
Key skills
A typical day
- •Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to requirements.
- •Read work orders to determine production specifications or information.
- •Observe production or monitor equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.
- •Mix or blend ingredients by starting machines and mixing for specified times.
- •Stop mixing or blending machines when specified product qualities are obtained and open valves and start pumps to transfer mixtures.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Skilled Trades
Explore all- Purdue University50% admit · $78,000 grad pay
- Ohio State University53% admit · $68,000 grad pay
- Pennsylvania State University55% admit · $70,000 grad pay
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