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

  • Production Hardener

  • 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.
  • 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.

  • Inspect metal, plastic, or composite products.
  • Adjust equipment controls to regulate gas flow.
  • Adjust temperature controls of ovens or other heating equipment.
  • Clean production equipment.
  • Determine metal or plastic production methods.
  • Heat material or workpieces to prepare for or complete production.
  • Load materials into production equipment.
  • Maintain production or processing equipment.
  • Mark products, workpieces, or equipment with identifying information.
  • Mount attachments or tools onto production equipment.
  • Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment.
  • Position raw materials on processing or production equipment.
  • Record operational or production data.
  • Remove products or workpieces from production equipment.
  • Repair production equipment or tools.
  • Set up production or processing equipment.