Metal planer operator

Code 7223.12

Metal planer operators set up and operate a planer, which is a metalworking machine designed to cut excess material from a metal workpiece using linear relative motion between the planer's cutting tool and the workpiece in order to create a linear toolpath and cut.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • quality standards
  • quality and cycle time optimisation
  • types of planing cutters
  • types of metal

Skills and competences

  • supply machine
  • supply machine with appropriate tools
  • consult technical resources
  • monitor moving workpiece in a machine
  • monitor automated machines
  • ensure equipment availability
  • set up the controller of a machine
  • tend metal planer
  • operate metal sheet shaker
  • remove inadequate workpieces
  • remove processed workpiece
  • perform test run

Transversal competences

  • measure flatness of a surface
  • dispose of cutting waste material

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Sources

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences