Operate or watch over washing or dry cleaning machines to wash or dry clean industrial or household articles, such as cloth garments, suede, leather, furs, blankets, draperies, linens, rugs, and carpets. Includes spotters and dyers of these articles.
Print binding and finishing workers
2025-09-12T10:52:04-06:00Bind books and other publications or finish printed products by hand or machine. They set up binding and finishing machines.
Printing press operators
2025-09-12T10:50:52-06:00Set up and operate digital, letterpress, lithographic, flexographic, gravure, or other printing machines. Includes short run offset printing presses.
Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
2025-09-12T10:48:36-06:00Perform precision smoothing, sharpening, polishing, or grinding of metal objects.
Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
2025-09-12T10:47:06-06:00Set up, operate, or watch over plating or coating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces. Includes electrolytic processes.
Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
2025-09-12T10:29:08-06:00Set 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.
Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders
2025-09-12T10:27:50-06:00Set up, operate, or watch over welding, soldering, or brazing machines or robots that weld, braze, solder, or heat treat metal products, components, or assemblies. Includes workers who operate laser cutters or laser beam machines.
Solderers and brazers
2025-09-12T10:25:40-06:00Braze or solder together components to assemble fabricated metal parts, using soldering iron, torch, or welding machine and flux.
Tool and die makers
2025-09-12T10:21:15-06:00Analyze specifications, lay out metal stock, set up and operate machine tools, and fit and assemble parts to make and repair dies, cutting tools, jigs, fixtures, gauges, and machinists' hand tools.
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
2025-09-12T10:19:59-06:00Set up, operate, or watch over more than one type of cutting or forming machine tool or robot.