Filament winding operator

Code 8142.6

Filament winding operators tend, control and maintain machines that coat filament, usually fibreglass or carbon, in resin and wind them around a rotation mould to produce pipes, containers, tubes and other hollow cylindrical products.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • quality standards
  • coating substances
  • types of fibre for polymer reinforcement

Skills and competences

  • consult technical resources
  • monitor gauge
  • monitor processing environment conditions
  • control temperature
  • cure composite workpiece
  • use personal protection equipment
  • set up the controller of a machine
  • optimise production processes parameters
  • prepare resin bath
  • remove filament composite workpiece from mandrel
  • 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