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

  • Computer Numerical Control Operator

  • Adjust controls to draw or press metal into specified shapes and diameters.
  • Maintain an inventory of materials.
  • Measure and examine extruded products to locate defects and to check for conformance to specifications, adjusting controls as necessary to alter products.
  • Start machines and set controls to regulate vacuum, air pressure, sizing rings, and temperature, and to synchronize speed of extrusion.

  • Adjust temperature controls of ovens or other heating equipment.
  • Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.