How do they match: Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

  • Coating Line Worker
  • Hot Mill Worker

  • Adjust controls to maintain temperatures and heating times, using thermal instruments and charts, dials and gauges of furnaces, and color of stock in furnaces to make setting determinations.
  • Instruct new workers in machine operation.
  • Move controls to light gas burners and to adjust gas and water flow and flame temperature.
  • Read production schedules and work orders to determine processing sequences, furnace temperatures, and heat cycle requirements for objects to be heat-treated.

  • Adjust equipment controls to regulate gas flow.
  • Adjust temperature controls of ovens or other heating equipment.
  • Instruct workers to use equipment or perform technical procedures.
  • Signal others to coordinate work activities.