Set up, operate, or watch over paper goods machines that perform a variety of functions, such as converting, sawing, corrugating, banding, wrapping, boxing, stitching, forming, or sealing paper or paperboard sheets into products.
Glass blowers, molders, benders, and finishers
2025-09-12T13:04:39-06:00Shape molten glass according to patterns.
Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders
2025-09-12T13:01:22-06:00Operate or watch over equipment, such as cooling and freezing units, refrigerators, batch freezers, and freezing tunnels, to cool or freeze products, food, blood plasma, and chemicals.
Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders
2025-09-12T12:59:49-06:00Operate 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.
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.
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.
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
2025-09-12T12:16:26-06:00Operate or watch over heavyduty heating equipment. Includes activities, such as annealing glass, drying lumber, curing rubber, removing moisture or soap from the materials.
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
2025-09-12T12:15:20-06:00Set up, operate, or watch over machines, such as glass forming machines, plodder machines, and tuber machines. They shape and form products, such as glassware, food, rubber, soap, brick, tile, clay, wax, tobacco, or cosmetics.