Employment Percentage
-10.71286075
SOC ID
51-9111
SOC Title
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
ONET ID
51-9111.00
ONET Concat ID
51911100
Median Salary
31654.27
EMSI Interest Area Term
Ed Level High School
96.959999
Ed Level Certificate
0.82
Ed Level Some College
0
Ed Level Associates
2.22
Ed Level Bachelors
0
Ed Level Masters
0
Ed Level Doctors
0
Typical Ed Level
a high school diploma or less
Career Description
Operate or tend machines to prepare industrial or consumer products for storage or shipment. Includes cannery workers who pack food products.
Core Tasks
- Attach identification labels to finished packaged items, or cut stencils and stencil information on containers, such as lot numbers or shipping destinations.
- Sort, grade, weigh, and inspect products, verifying and adjusting product weight or measurement to meet specifications.
- Observe machine operations to ensure quality and conformity of filled or packaged products to standards.
- Remove finished packaged items from machine and separate rejected items.
- Stop or reset machines when malfunctions occur, clear machine jams, and report malfunctions to a supervisor.
- Tend or operate machine that packages product.
- Inspect and remove defective products and packaging material.
- Monitor the production line, watching for problems such as pile-ups, jams, or glue that isn't sticking properly.
- Start machine by engaging controls.
- Regulate machine flow, speed, or temperature.
- Clean, oil, and make minor adjustments or repairs to machinery and equipment, such as opening valves or setting guides.
- Adjust machine components and machine tension and pressure according to size or processing angle of product.
- Supply materials to spindles, conveyors, hoppers, or other feeding devices and unload packaged product.
- Stack finished packaged items, or wrap protective material around each item, and pack the items in cartons or containers.
- Package the product in the form in which it will be sent out, for example, filling bags with flour from a chute or spout.
- Stock and sort product for packaging or filling machine operation, and replenish packaging supplies, such as wrapping paper, plastic sheet, boxes, cartons, glue, ink, or labels.
- Count and record finished and rejected packaged items.
- Clean packaging containers, line and pad crates, or assemble cartons to prepare for product packing.
- Secure finished packaged items by hand tying, sewing, gluing, stapling, or attaching fastener.
- Clean and remove damaged or otherwise inferior materials to prepare raw products for processing.
Start Annual Earnings
27024.77
Top Annual Earnings
50886.81
EMSI Career Title Slug
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