Description
Tend a metalworking machine designed to buff and polish metal surfaces, monitor and operate it according to regulations.
Alternative labels
watch over buffing and smoothing machinery
oversee metal polishing machine
watch buffing and smoothing machinery
watch over metal polishing machine
oversee buffing and smoothing machinery
watch metal polishing machine
guard metal polishing machine
guard buffing and smoothing machinery
Skill type
skill/competence
Skill reusability level
cross-sector
Relationships with occupations
Essential skill
Tend metal polishing machine is an essential skill of the following occupations:
Surgical instrument maker: Surgical instrument makers create, repair and design surgical instruments, such as clamps, graspers, mechanical cutters, scopes, probes and other surgical instruments.
Optional skill
Tend metal polishing machine is optional for these occupations. This means knowing this skill may be an asset for career advancement if you are in one of these occupations.
Gunsmith: Gunsmiths modify and repair metal fabricated firearms for special costumer specifications. They use machines and hand tools such as planers, grinders and millers to alter and restore guns, and they may also apply engravings, carvings and other decorative finishing touches to the otherwise finished product.
Ammunition assembler: Ammunition assemblers put together explosives and other ammunition components. They perform this work in mass production in ammunition factories. The production itself focuses on the manufacturing of cartridges or projectiles.
Metal polisher: Metal 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 oxidisation, tarnishing the metal after the other fabrication processes. They may operate equipment using diamond solutions, silicon-made polishing pads, or working wheels with a leather polishing strop, and tend to these materials ensuring their effectiveness.
Jewellery polisher: Jewellery 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 such as files and emery paper buff sticks and/or hand held polishing machines. They also use mechanised polishing machines such as barrel polishers.Â
References
- Tend metal polishing machine – ESCO