Metal furniture machine operator

Also searched as: Operador de máquina de carpintería metálica

Code 8219.7

What does a Metal furniture machine operator do?

Metal furniture machine operators use machines and power tools to cut, shape and join metal pieces in order to produce metal furniture ranging from office furnishings to outdoors fittings. They use different types of metal such as aluminium, iron and stainless steel, and different types of processes such as metal forming and casting. They polish, apply protective layers and, in some cases, decorative finishes to the metal pieces. They assemble and join the elements to obtain the final product.

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Essential skills

Knowledge

  • metalworking
  • quality standards
  • metal smoothing technologies
  • types of metal

Skills and competences

  • supply machine
  • apply a protective layer
  • supply machine with appropriate tools
  • heat metals
  • monitor automated machines
  • cut metal products
  • fabricate metal parts
  • set up the controller of a machine
  • maintain furniture machinery
  • assemble metal parts
  • operate furniture machinery
  • remove inadequate workpieces
  • remove processed workpiece
  • join metals
  • utilizar equipos de soldadura

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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