Plastics Process Operatives Career Details
About this Career
New workers start at around £19,998. Normal pay is £27,433 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £40,769.
Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons in Greater London, and do not distinguish between full and part-time jobs.
Daily Tasks
- Makes artificial eyes and contact lens discs, and makes and repairs spectacle frames and plastic parts of artificial limbs and other orthopaedic appliances.
- Trims, cuts and performs other finishing operations on plastic using hand and machine tools.
- Inspects plastic products for defects, takes measurements and repairs plastic belting and sheathing.
- Monitors controls regulating temperature, pressure, etc. and operates moulding, extruding, calendering, thermoforming and covering machines.
- Weighs and mixes ingredients, loads machine with plastic to be worked or regulates flow from feed conveyor or hopper.
- Prepares machine for operation by affixing any necessary attachments.
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