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K - knowledge
L - language skills and knowledge
S - skills
S1 - communication, collaboration and creativity
S2 - information skills
S3 - assisting and caring
S4 - management skills
S5 - working with computers
S6 - handling and moving
S7 - constructing
S8 - working with machinery and specialised equipment
S8.0 - working with machinery and specialised equipment
S8.1 - operating mobile plant
S8.2 - driving vehicles
S8.3 - operating watercraft
S8.4 - operating machinery for the extraction and processing of raw materials
S8.5 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products
S8.5.0 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products
S8.5.1 - operating painting or coating machinery
S8.5.2 - operating packaging machinery
S8.5.3 - operating machinery for the manufacture and treatment of textiles, fur and leather products
S8.5.4 - operating food processing machinery
S8.5.5 - operating mixing and separating machinery
S8.5.6 - operating print and photographic production equipment
S8.5.7 - operating metal, plastic or rubber forming equipment
- adjust filament tension
- adjust the rubber machines
- adjust vulcanizing machine
- bond rubber plies
- build rebar cages
- coil metal
- cover V-belts with fabric
- dump contents into vat
- electroform
- ensure core uniformity
- ensure correct gas pressure
- fabricate metal parts
- form continuous bands
- heed the altering anodising properties
- insert core structures
- maintain hydraulic forging press
- manipulate plastic
- manipulate rubber
- manipulate rubber products
- manufacture metal additive manufacturing parts
- monitor rubber processing conditions
- mould vinyl records
- move filled coquilles
- operate bullet press
- operate drum device
- operate insulating tube winding machinery
- operate machines for the rubber extrusion process
- operate nibbling equipment
- operate rollers
- prepare parts for post processing
- prepare rubber sheets
- prepare tyres for vulcanization
- remove filament composite workpiece from mandrel
- remove scale from metal workpiece
- select coquille types
- set up additive manufacturing systems
- set-up drum for rubber
- tend blow moulding machine
- tend drop forging hammer
- tend electron beam welding machine
- tend injection moulding machine
- tend laser beam welding machine
- tend laser marking machine
- tend mechanical forging press
- tend mouldmaking machines
- tend nibbling machine
- tend notching machines
- tend spring making machine
- tend straightening press
- tend upsetting machine
- tend V-belt covering machine
- tend wire weaving machine
- use metal bending techniques
- use shaping machinery
- use wire processing machinery
- wind wires
- work with blacksmithing power tools
S8.5.8 - operating cutting, grinding and smoothing machinery
S8.6 - using precision instrumentation and equipment
S8.7 - installing, maintaining and repairing mechanical equipment
S8.8 - installing, maintaining and repairing electrical, electronic and precision equipment
S8.9 - operating aircraft
T - transversal skills and competences

operate plastic machinery

skills

working with machinery and specialised equipment

operating machinery for the manufacture of products

operating metal, plastic or rubber forming equipment

operate plastic machinery

Description

Description

Operate machines and equipment used for creating plastic parts and products such as injection, extrusion, compression or blow moulding machines.

Alternative Labels

manage plastic machinery

operate a plastic machine

operate plastic machines

oversee plastic machinery

use plastic machinery

work plastic machinery

Skill type

skill

Skill reusability level

sector specific skills and competences

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DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission developed ESCO in collaboration with stakeholders and with the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop).

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Current version: ESCO v1.2 (Last update 15/05/2024)