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Program Codes
10268
20820
Employment Percentage
-25.75757576
SOC ID
51-4023
SOC Title
Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
ONET ID
51-4023.00
ONET Concat ID
51402300
Median Salary
39249.6
EMSI Interest Area Term
Business Sciences
Ed Level High School
86.779999
Ed Level Certificate
3.36
Ed Level Some College
9.86
Ed Level Associates
0
Ed Level Bachelors
0
Ed Level Masters
0
Ed Level Doctors
0
Typical Ed Level
a high school diploma or less
Career Description
Set up, operate, or tend machines to roll steel or plastic forming bends, beads, knurls, rolls, or plate, or to flatten, temper, or reduce gauge of material.
Core Tasks
  • Adjust and correct machine set-ups to reduce thicknesses, reshape products, and eliminate product defects.
  • Monitor machine cycles and mill operation to detect jamming and to ensure that products conform to specifications.
  • Start operation of rolling and milling machines to flatten, temper, form, and reduce sheet metal sections and to produce steel strips.
  • Examine, inspect, and measure raw materials and finished products to verify conformance to specifications.
  • Read rolling orders, blueprints, and mill schedules to determine setup specifications, work sequences, product dimensions, and installation procedures.
  • Manipulate controls and observe dial indicators to monitor, adjust, and regulate speeds of machine mechanisms.
  • Set distance points between rolls, guides, meters, and stops, according to specifications.
  • Install equipment such as guides, guards, gears, cooling equipment, and rolls, using hand tools.
  • Calculate draft space and roll speed for each mill stand to plan rolling sequences and specified dimensions and tempers.
  • Position, align, and secure arbors, spindles, coils, mandrels, dies, and slitting knives.
  • Fill oil cups, adjust valves, and observe gauges to control flow of metal coolants and lubricants onto workpieces.
  • Signal and assist other workers to remove and position equipment, fill hoppers, and feed materials into machines.
  • Activate shears and grinders to trim workpieces.
  • Record mill production on schedule sheets.
  • Direct and train other workers to change rolls, operate mill equipment, remove coils and cobbles, and band and load material.
Start Annual Earnings
28932.8
Top Annual Earnings
64896
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