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Career Details :: Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
Operate or tend machines to prepare industrial or consumer products for storage or shipment. Includes cannery workers who pack food products.
No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.
These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
- Stocks product for packaging or filling machine operation.
- Starts machine, by engaging controls.
- Observes machine operations to ensure quality and conformity of filled or packaged products to standards.
- Stocks packaging material for machine processing.
- Secures finished packaged items by hand tying, sewing, or attaching fastener.
- Stacks finished packaged items or packs items in cartons or containers.
- Stops or resets machine when malfunction occurs and clears machine jams.
- Inspects and removes defective product and packaging material.
- Tests and evaluates product and verifies product weight or measurement to ensure quality standards.
- Adjusts machine tension and pressure and machine components according to size or processing angle of product.
- Cleans, oils, and makes minor repairs to machinery and equipment.
- Operates mechanism to cut filler product or packaging material.
- Regulates machine flow, speed, or temperature.
- Attaches identification labels to finished packaged items.
- Tends or operates machine that packages product.
- Removes finished packaged items from machine and separates rejected items.
- Counts and records finished and rejected packaged items.
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- Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Operators and Tenders
- Fiber Product Cutting Machine Setters and Set-Up Operators
- Plastic Molding and Casting Machine Operators and Tenders
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- Sewing Machine Operators, Nongarment
General Work Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Repairing & Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
Frequent Work Context
- Degree of Automation
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate