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

  • Set up, operate, or tend machines to extrude or draw thermoplastic or metal materials into tubes, rods, hoses, wire, bars, or structural shapes.

  • Install dies, machine screws, and sizing rings on machines that extrude thermoplastic or metal materials.
  • Load machine hoppers with mixed materials, using augers, or stuff rolls of plastic dough into machine cylinders.
  • Maintain an inventory of materials.
  • Weigh and mix pelletized, granular, or powdered thermoplastic materials and coloring pigments.

  • Load materials into production equipment.
  • Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.