Operate or watch over sewing machines to join, reinforce, decorate, or perform related sewing operations in the manufacture of garment or nongarment products.

Bind books and other publications or finish printed products by hand or machine. They set up binding and finishing machines.

Format and proof text and images submitted by designers and clients into finished pages that can be printed. Includes digital and photo typesetting. They produce printing plates.

Set up, operate, or watch over heating equipment, such as heat treating furnaces, flame hardening machines, induction machines, soaking pits, or vacuum equipment to temper, harden, anneal, or heat treat metal or plastic objects.

Braze or solder together components to assemble fabricated metal parts, using soldering iron, torch, or welding machine and flux.

Use hand welding or flame cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.

Make or form wax or sand cores or molds used in the production of metal castings in foundries.

Operate hand controlled mechanisms to pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds to produce castings or ingots.

Operate or watch over furnaces, such as gas, oil, coal, electric arc or electric induction, open hearth, or oxygen furnaces, to melt and refine metal before casting or to produce specified types of steel.

Set up and operate a variety of machine tools to produce precision parts and instruments. They fabricate, modify, or repair mechanical instruments. They also fabricate and modify parts to make or repair machine tools or maintain industrial machines, applying knowledge of mechanics, mathematics, metal properties, layout, and machining procedures.