How do they match: Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers

  • Press Operator
  • Presser
  • Glass Blowing Lathe Operator
  • Glass Lathe Operator
  • Lathe Operator

  • Operate and maintain finishing machines to grind, drill, sand, bevel, decorate, wash, or polish glass or glass products.
  • Operate electric kilns that heat and mold glass sheets to the shape and curve of metal jigs.
  • Place glass into dies or molds of presses and control presses to form products, such as glassware components or optical blanks.
  • Set up and adjust machine press stroke lengths and pressures and regulate oven temperatures, according to glass types to be processed.
  • Shape, bend, or join sections of glass, using paddles, pressing and flattening hand tools, or cork.

  • Operate grinding equipment.
  • Operate heating or drying equipment.
  • Record operational or production data.