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Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators

  • Manufacturing

Tasks

What tasks do Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators perform?

  • 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.

  • 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.


Knowledge

What do Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators need to know?

  • Production and Processing

    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

  • English Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • Public Safety and Security

    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.


Skills

What skills do Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators need?

  • Operation and Control

    Controlling operations of equipment or systems.

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

  • Monitoring

    Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.



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