Description
Slate mixers operate and maintain slate mixing machines that mix multicolored slate granules used for asphalt-coated roofing felt surfacing.
Other titles
The following job titles also refer to slate mixer:
slate mixing machine operator
slate mixing machine operative
slate granule mixer worker
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slate product production operative
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slate granule mixer tender
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granule mixer
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slate granule mixer setter
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slate-mixer operator
slate mixing machine worker
Minimum qualifications
A high school diploma is generally required to work as a slate mixer.
ISCO skill level
ISCO skill level is defined as a function of the complexity and range of tasks and duties to be performed in an occupation. It is measured on a scale from 1 to 4, with 1 the lowest level and 4 the highest, by considering:
- the nature of the work performed in an occupation in relation to the characteristic tasks and duties
- the level of formal education required for competent performance of the tasks and duties involved and
- the amount of informal on-the-job training and/or previous experience in a related occupation required for competent performance of these tasks and duties.
Slate mixer is a Skill level 2 occupation.
Slate mixer career path
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Long term prospects
These occupations require some skills and knowledge of slate mixer. They also require other skills and knowledge, but at a higher ISCO skill level, meaning these occupations are accessible from a position of slate mixer with a significant experience and/or extensive training.
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Essential knowledge and skills
Essential knowledge
This knowledge should be acquired through learning to fulfill the role of slate mixer.
- Personal protective equipment: Types of protective materials and equipment foreseen for various types of tasks such as general or specialised cleaning activities.
Essential skills and competences
These skills are necessary for the role of slate mixer.
- Tend discharge conveyor: Operate and monitor the equipment used to move bulk material, such as blended granules, from one place to another.
- Monitor gauge: Oversee the data presented by a gauge concerning the measurement of pressure, temperature, thickness of a material, and others.
- Use personal protection equipment: Make use of protection equipment according to training, instruction and manuals. Inspect the equipment and use it consistently.
- Feed the slate mixer: Feed the mixer conveyor with the specified amounts and colors of slate granules by pulling the levers which allow depositing materials.
- Control slate chutes: Control the slate chutes by adjusting the gates using the gauges.
- Keep records of work progress: Maintain records of the progress of the work including time, defects, malfunctions, etc.
- Prepare chemical samples: Prepare the specific samples such as gas, liquid or solid samples in order for them to be ready for analysis, labeling and storing samples according to specifications.
Optional knowledge and skills
Optional knowledge
This knowledge is sometimes, but not always, required for the role of slate mixer. However, mastering this knowledge allows you to have more opportunities for career development.
- Asphalt mixes: The properties, advantages and disadvantages of asphalt mixes such as Marshall and Superpave mixes and the way they are best applied.
Optional skills and competences
These skills and competences are sometimes, but not always, required for the role of slate mixer. However, mastering these skills and competences allows you to have more opportunities for career development.
- Maintain equipment: Regularly inspect and perform all required activities to maintain the equipment in functional order prior or after its use.
- Test raw minerals: Take samples of mineral materials for testing purposes. Execute various chemical and physical tests on the materials.
- Clean mixer: Perform the cleaning of mixers in order to prepare them for mixing different types of compounds.
ISCO group and title
8114 – Cement, stone and other mineral products machine operators
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