How do they match: Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

  • Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory testing.
  • Examine materials, ingredients, or products, visually or with hands, to ensure conformance to established standards.
  • Read work orders to determine production specifications and information.
  • Record data from operations, testing, and production on specified forms.
  • Reject defective products and readjust equipment to eliminate problems.
  • Tend accessory equipment, such as pumps and conveyors, to move materials or ingredients through production processes.
  • Test samples of materials or products to ensure compliance with specifications, using test equipment.
  • Transfer materials, supplies, and products between work areas, using moving equipment and hand tools.
  • Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products at specified intervals to ensure conformance to requirements.

  • Clean production equipment.
  • Collect samples of materials or products for testing.
  • Evaluate quality of materials or products.
  • Inspect production equipment.
  • Load materials into production equipment.
  • Maintain production or processing equipment.
  • Mark products, workpieces, or equipment with identifying information.
  • Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
  • Measure ingredients or substances to be used in production processes.
  • Move products, materials, or equipment between work areas.
  • Read work orders or other instructions to determine product specifications or materials requirements.
  • Record operational or production data.
  • Test chemical or physical characteristics of materials or products.
  • Weigh finished products.