Skills & competences

Description

Plastic products machine operators monitor and operate machines which knead and blend compounds to obtain plastic materials and which make various plastic components and articles.
Tasks include -
(a) operating and monitoring machines which knead and blend compounds to obtain plastic materials;
(b) operating and monitoring machines which shape plastic materials by moulding, extrusion, blowing, cutting and other means;
(c) operating and monitoring machines which laminate plastics and plastic-impregnated materials or produce fibreglass;
(d) encasing uncoated wire, cord, cable and optic fibre in plastic;
(e) examining outputs for defects and conformity to specifications;
(f) recycling waste plastic materials;
(g) making artificial eyes and contact lens discs, making and repairing spectacle frames and plastic parts of orthopaedic appliances.
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Laminated press operator (plastics)
- Optic fibre drawer
- Plastic cable making machine operator
- Plastic extrusion machine operator
- Plastic moulder
- Plastics boat builder
- Plastics bottle blowing machine operator
- Plastics products machine operator