How do they match: Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders

  • Handle Machine Operator
  • Cementing Bulk Material Operator

  • Operate or tend bonding machines that use adhesives to join items for further processing or to form a completed product. Processes include joining veneer sheets into plywood; gluing paper; or joining rubber and rubberized fabric parts, plastic, simulated leather, or other materials.

  • Adjust machine components according to specifications such as widths, lengths, and thickness of materials and amounts of glue, cement, or adhesive required.
  • Align and position materials being joined to ensure accurate application of adhesive or heat sealing.
  • Depress pedals to lower electrodes that heat and seal edges of material.
  • Examine and measure completed materials or products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring devices such as tape measures, gauges, or calipers.
  • Maintain production records such as quantities, dimensions, and thicknesses of materials processed.
  • Mount or load material such as paper, plastic, wood, or rubber in feeding mechanisms of cementing or gluing machines.
  • Remove and stack completed materials or products, and restock materials to be joined.
  • Remove jammed materials from machines and readjust components as necessary to resume normal operations.
  • Start machines, and turn valves or move controls to feed, admit, apply, or transfer materials and adhesives, and to adjust temperature, pressure, and time settings.
  • Transport materials, supplies, and finished products between storage and work areas, using forklifts.

  • Adjust equipment controls to regulate flow of production materials or products.
  • Load materials into production equipment.
  • Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment.
  • Move products, materials, or equipment between work areas.
  • Read work orders or other instructions to determine product specifications or materials requirements.