Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Career, Salary and Skills

Occupation description

Set up, operate, or tend machines, such as glass-forming machines, plodder machines, and tuber machines, to shape and form products such as glassware, food, rubber, soap, brick, tile, clay, wax, tobacco, or cosmetics.

National salary and employment

Top skills

Typical tasks

• Press control buttons to activate machinery and equipment.
• Disassemble equipment to repair it or to replace parts, such as nozzles, punches, and filters.
• Swab molds with solutions to prevent products from sticking.
• Remove molds, mold components, and feeder tubes from machinery after production is complete.
• Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, and temperatures, and amounts, dimensions, and flow of materials or ingredients.
• Examine, measure, and weigh materials or products to verify conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as templates, micrometers, or scales.
• Monitor machine operations and observe lights and gauges to detect malfunctions.
• Complete work tickets, and place them with products.

Technology

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Word
• Operational databases
• Production scheduling software
• SAP software

Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders salary by location

Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.

• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in TN
  Median $41,970 · Employment 4,210
• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in CA
  Median $47,300 · Employment 4,210
• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in OH
  Median $47,070 · Employment 3,970
• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in TX
  Median $37,710 · Employment 3,420
• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in NC
  Median $43,050 · Employment 3,420
• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in NY
  Median $44,660 · Employment 3,260
• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in IN
  Median $46,790 · Employment 3,150
• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in SC
  Median $51,620 · Employment 2,460
• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in PA
  Median $53,580 · Employment 2,450
• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in New York, NY
  Median $39,680 · Employment 2,420
• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in AR
  Median $48,320 · Employment 2,190
• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in MI
  Median $39,790 · Employment 1,970

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