Plastic heat treatment equipment operator
Code 8142.10
Plastic heat treatment equipment operators manipulate plastic products using machinery such as furnaces or flame-hardening machines in order to temper, anneal or heat-treat. They set up the machinery and read the production instructions to determine the furnace temperature. Plastic heat treatment equipment operators remove products from machines, let them cool down, examine and test products to see if they conform to specifications.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- quality standards
- plastic resins
- types of plastic
Skills and competences
- consult technical resources
- monitor automated machines
- use personal protection equipment
- prevent damage in a furnace
- extract materials from furnace
- set up the controller of a machine
- load materials into furnace
- operate heat treatment furnace
- maintain furnace temperature
- measure furnace temperature
- tend discharge conveyor
- optimise production processes parameters
- record furnace operations
- troubleshoot
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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