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Job Description

Set up, operate, or tend 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.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-4193.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 33,690.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 16.00
Currently, there are 35,570 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Plating and Coating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic”.

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Tasks for “Coater Associate”

Maintain production records.
Observe gauges to ensure that machines are operating properly, making adjustments or stopping machines when problems occur.
Read production schedules to determine setups of equipment and machines.
Measure and set stops, rolls, brushes, and guides on automatic feeders and conveying equipment or coating machines, using micrometers, rules, and hand tools.
Place plated or coated materials on racks and transfer them to ovens to dry for specified periods of time.
Remove excess materials or impurities from objects, using air hoses or grinding machines.
Immerse objects to be coated or plated into cleaning solutions, or spray objects with conductive solutions to prepare them for plating.
Install gears and holding devices on conveyor equipment.
Monitor and measure thicknesses of electroplating on component parts to verify conformance to specifications, using micrometers.
Adjust controls to set temperatures of coating substances and speeds of machines and equipment.
Position objects to be plated in frames, or suspend them from positive or negative terminals of power supplies.
Inspect coated or plated areas for defects such as air bubbles or uneven coverage.
Set up, operate, or tend plating or coating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces.
Suspend objects such as parts or molds from cathode rods, or negative terminals, and immerse objects in plating solutions.
Perform equipment maintenance such as cleaning tanks and lubricating moving parts of conveyors.
Position and feed materials into processing machines, by hand or by using automated equipment.
Measure or weigh materials, using rulers, calculators, and scales.
Spray coating in specified patterns according to instructions.
Test machinery to ensure that it is operating properly.
Determine sizes and compositions of objects to be plated, and amounts of electrical current and time required.
Preheat workpieces in ovens.
Attach nozzles, position guns, connect hoses, and thread wire to set up metal-spraying machines.
Suspend sticks or pieces of plating metal from anodes, or positive terminals, and immerse metal in plating solutions.
Position containers to receive parts, and load or unload materials in containers, using dollies or handtrucks.
Immerse workpieces in coating solutions or liquid metal or plastic for specified times.
Operate hoists to place workpieces onto machine feed carriages or spindles.
Clean workpieces, using wire brushes.
Mix and test solutions, and turn valves to fill tanks with solutions.
Rinse coated objects in cleansing liquids and dry them with cloths, centrifugal driers, or by tumbling in sawdust-filled barrels.
Operate sandblasting equipment to roughen and clean surfaces of workpieces.
Replace worn parts and adjust equipment components, using hand tools.
Clean and maintain equipment, using water hoses and scrapers.
Plate small objects such as nuts or bolts, using motor-driven barrels.
Adjust dials to regulate flow of current and voltage supplied to terminals to control plating processes.
Cut metal or other materials, using shears or band saws.
Measure, mark, and mask areas to be excluded from plating.
Remove objects from solutions at periodic intervals and observe objects to verify conformance to specifications.
Examine completed objects to determine thicknesses of metal deposits, or measure thicknesses by using instruments such as micrometers.

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