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

  • Heat Treat Technician
  • Preparatory Technician

  • 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.
  • Set up and operate or tend machines, such as furnaces, baths, flame-hardening machines, and electronic induction machines, that harden, anneal, and heat-treat metal.

  • Instruct workers to use equipment or perform technical procedures.