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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.5 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products S8.5.8 - operating cutting, grinding and smoothing machinery Operate metal polishing equipment
Description
Operate equipment designed to buff and polish metal workpieces, such as diamond solutions, silicon-made polishing pads, or working wheels with a leather polishing strop, and others.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 3 occupations
- Optional in 7 occupations
- Total: 10 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- EnamellerEnamellers embellish metals such as gold, silver, copper, steel, cast iron or platinum by painting it. The enamel they apply, consists of coloured powdered glass. Working condition…
- Tool and die makerTool and die makers operate a variety of equipment and machinery designed to create metal tools and dies, which are both needed in several areas of manufacturing, and produce…
- Surface treatment operatorSurface treatment operators apply chemicals and paint to the material surface in order to protect against corrosion. They calculate the materials needed for surface protection. Oth…
Optional for
- Coating machine operatorCoating machine operators set up and tend coating machines that coat metal products with a thin layer of covering of materials such as lacquer, enamel, copper, nickel, zinc, cadmiu…
- Clock and watchmakerClock and watchmakers make mechanical or electronic clocks and watches. They use precision hand tools or automated machinery to assemble the timing devices. Clock and watchmakers m…
- Lacquer spray gun operatorLacquer spray gun operators operate lacquer spray guns designed to provide otherwise finished metal, wooden or plastic workpieces with a hard, durable finishing coat, through lacqu…
- Dip tank operatorDip tank operators set up and tend dip tanks, which are coating machines, designed to provide otherwise finished work pieces with durable coating by dipping them in a tank…
- Metal polisherMetal polishers use metal working equipment and machinery to polish and buff almost finished metal workpieces in order to enhance their smoothness and appearance and to remove oxid…
- Jewellery polisherJewellery polishers ensure that finished jewellery pieces are cleaned by customer demand or prepared for sale. They may also perform minor repairs. They use either hand tools …
- Anodising machine operatorAnodising machine operators set up and tend anodising machines designed to provide otherwise finished metal workpieces, usually aluminum-based, with a durable, anodic oxide, corros…
Related skills
- Manufacturing of tools
- Remove processed workpiece
- Keep records of work progress
- Remove inadequate workpieces
- Ensure equipment availability
- Types of metal
- Inspect quality of products
- Types of metal manufacturing processes
- Quality standards
- Ferrous metal processing
- Wear appropriate protective gear
- Non-ferrous metal processing
- Metal coating technologies
Last updated on February 19, 2026
