Cylindrical grinder operator
Code 8122.4
Cylindrical grinder operators set up and tend cylindrical grinding machines designed to apply abrasive processes in order to remove small amounts of excess material and smoothen metal workpieces by multiple abrasive grinding wheels with diamond teeth as a cutting device for very precise and light cuts, as the workpiece is fed past it and formed into a cylinder.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- cylindrical grinder parts
- quality standards
- quality and cycle time optimisation
- types of metal
Skills and competences
- supply machine
- smooth burred surfaces
- apply precision metalworking techniques
- monitor gauge
- monitor moving workpiece in a machine
- spot metal imperfections
- ensure equipment availability
- set up the controller of a machine
- tend cylindrical grinder
- remove inadequate workpieces
- remove processed workpiece
- 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