Filing machine operator
Code 8122.9
Filing machine operators set up and tend filing machines such as band files, reciprocating files and bench filing machines in order to smoothen metal, wood or plastic surfaces by precisely cutting and removing small amounts of excess material.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- filing machine parts
- quality standards
- quality and cycle time optimisation
- type of file
Skills and competences
- supply machine
- smooth burred surfaces
- monitor automated machines
- ensure equipment availability
- set up the controller of a machine
- tend filing machine
- perform machine maintenance
- remove inadequate workpieces
- remove processed workpiece
- perform test run
- wear appropriate protective gear
Transversal competences
- dispose of cutting waste material
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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