Sets up, operates, or tends plating or coating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces. Includes electrolytic processes.
This career is part of the Manufacturing cluster Manufacturing Production pathway.
A person in this career:
- Inspects coated or plated areas for defects such as air bubbles or uneven coverage.
- Immerses objects to be coated or plated into cleaning solutions, or sprays objects with conductive solutions to prepare them for plating.
- Immerses workpieces in coating solutions or liquid metal or plastic for specified times.
- Sets up, operates, or tends plating or coating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces.
- Positions and feeds materials into processing machines, by hand or by using automated equipment.
- Tests machinery to ensure that it is operating properly.
- Operates hoists to place workpieces onto machine feed carriages or spindles.
- Maintains production records.
- Adjusts controls to set temperatures of coating substances and speeds of machines and equipment.
- Removes objects from solutions at periodic intervals and observes objects to verify conformance to specifications.
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