Injection moulding operator
Code 8142.7
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.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- quality standards
- injection moulding machine parts
- dies
Skills and competences
- Fabricación de moldes de producción
- Manipular resinas
- consult technical resources
- monitor gauge
- monitor automated machines
- use personal protection equipment
- set up the controller of a machine
- install press dies
- tend injection moulding machine
- optimise production processes parameters
- trim excess material
- troubleshoot
- monitor valves
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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