Occupation Atlasinjection moulding operator
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/502fe307-ae65-46cb-a485-e559b9a35266
injection moulding operator
Injection moulding operators operate and monitor injection moulding machines, in order to cast products from thermoplastic materials. They regulate the temperature, pressure, and volume of plastic, according to pre-defined specifications. Injection moulding operators also remove finished products and cut-away excess material, using a knife or other hand tools.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (14)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- consult technical resources
- dies
- injection moulding machine parts
- install press dies
- monitor automated machines
- monitor gauge
- monitor valves
- optimise production processes parameters
- quality standards
- set up the controller of a machine
- tend injection moulding machine
- trim excess material
- troubleshoot
- use personal protection equipment
Optional (28)
- add colour
- extract products from moulds
- feed hoppers
- finish plastic products
- grind wasted plastic
- inspect quality of products
- jewellery processes
- keep records of work progress
- maintain equipment
- maintain moulds
- manufacturing of daily use goods
- manufacturing of jewellery
- manufacturing of sports equipment
- mechanics
- medical devices
- melt wax
- mix moulding and casting material
- move filled moulds
- operate lifting equipment
- perform test run
- plastic welding
- report defective manufacturing materials
- select mould types
- solve technical problems
- tend blow moulding machine
- types of moulding
- types of plastic
- types of waxes
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