Operate or watch over machines to wash or clean products, such as barrels or kegs, glass items, tin plate, food, pulp, coal, plastic, or rubber, to remove impurities.
Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders
2025-09-12T12:58:51-06:00Operate or watch over bonding machines that use adhesives to join items for further processing or to form a completed product. Their tasks include joining veneer sheets into plywood; gluing paper; or joining rubber and rubberized fabric parts, plastic, simulated leather, or other materials.
Photographic process workers and processing machine operators
2025-09-12T12:58:08-06:00Perform work involved in developing and processing photographic images from film or digital media. They perform precision tasks such as editing photographic negatives and prints.
Semiconductor processors
2025-09-12T12:56:26-06:00Manufacture electronic semiconductors. They load materials into furnace. They cut ingots and load them into crystal growing chamber and monitor controls. They locate crystal axis in ingot using x ray equipment and cut ingots into wafers. They clean, polish, and load the wafers into furnaces, chemical baths and equipments to form circuitry and change conductive properties.
Painting, coating, and decorating workers
2025-09-12T12:55:11-06:00Paint, coat, or decorate articles such as furniture, glass, plateware, pottery, jewelry, toys, books, or leather.
Painters, transportation equipment
2025-09-12T12:54:02-06:00Operate or watch over painting machines to paint surfaces of transportation equipment, such as automobiles, buses, trucks, trains, boats, and airplanes. Includes painters in auto body repair facilities.
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders
2025-09-12T12:52:52-06:00Set up, operate, or watch over machines to coat or paint any of a wide variety of products, including glassware, cloth, ceramics, metal, plastic, paper, or wood, with lacquer, silver, copper, rubber, varnish, enamel, oil, or rust proof materials.
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
2025-09-12T12:51:04-06:00Operate or watch over machines to prepare industrial or consumer products for storage or shipment. Includes cannery workers who pack food products.
Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
2025-09-12T12:49:52-06:00Cut, grind, and polish eyeglasses, contact lenses, or other precision optical elements. They assemble and mount lenses into frames or process other optical elements. Includes precision lens polishers or grinders, centerer edgers, and lens mounters.
Medical appliance technicians
2025-09-12T12:48:44-06:00Construct, fit, maintain, or repair medical supportive devices, such as suspenders, orthotics and prosthetic devices, joints, arch supports, and other surgical and medical appliances.