Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders

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Job Description

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Key Tasks

• Align and position materials being joined to ensure accurate application of adhesive or heat sealing.
• Adjust machine components according to specifications such as widths, lengths, and thickness of materials and amounts of glue, cement, or adhesive required.
• Monitor machine operations to detect malfunctions and report or resolve problems.
• Start machines, and turn valves or move controls to feed, admit, apply, or transfer materials and adhesives, and to adjust temperature, pressure, and time settings.
• Fill machines with glue, cement, or adhesives.
• Perform test production runs and make adjustments as necessary to ensure that completed products meet standards and specifications.
• Examine and measure completed materials or products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring devices such as tape measures, gauges, or calipers.
• Read work orders and communicate with coworkers to determine machine and equipment settings and adjustments and supply and product specifications.
• Remove and stack completed materials or products, and restock materials to be joined.
• Observe gauges, meters, and control panels to obtain information about equipment temperatures and pressures, or the speed of feeders or conveyors.
• Maintain production records such as quantities, dimensions, and thicknesses of materials processed.
• Remove jammed materials from machines and readjust components as necessary to resume normal operations.
• Mount or load material such as paper, plastic, wood, or rubber in feeding mechanisms of cementing or gluing machines.
• Transport materials, supplies, and finished products between storage and work areas, using forklifts.
• Clean and maintain gluing and cementing machines, using solutions, lubricants, brushes, and scrapers.
• Measure and mix ingredients to prepare glue.

O*NET Information

• SOC Code: 51-9191.00
• Title: Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders

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