How do they match: Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

  • Electric Plater

  • Set up, operate, or tend plating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces. Typically, the product being coated is immersed in molten metal or an electrolytic solution.

  • Determine sizes and compositions of objects to be plated, and amounts of electrical current and time required.
  • Set up, operate, or tend plating or coating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces.

  • Adjust flow of electricity to tools or production equipment.