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Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders: Operate or tend furnaces, such as gas, oil, coal,
electric-arc or electric induction, open-hearth, or oxygen furnaces, to melt and refine metal before casting
or to produce specified types of steel. Most have a high school diploma or GED
Methane/Landfill Gas Generation System Technicians: Monitor, operate, and maintain landfill gas
collection system components and environmental monitoring and control systems.
Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic: Set up, operate,
or tend milling or planing machines to mill, plane, shape, groove, or profile metal or plastic work pieces.
Most have a vocational certificate
Millwrights: Install, dismantle, or move machinery and heavy equipment according to layout plans,
blueprints, or other drawings. Most have a high school diploma or GED
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders: Set up, operate, or tend machines to
mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.
Most have a high school diploma or GED
Model Makers, Metal and Plastic: Set up and operate machines, such as lathes, milling and engraving
machines, and jig borers to make working models of metal or plastic objects. Includes template makers.
Most have a high school diploma or GED
Model Makers, Wood: Construct full-size and scale wooden precision models of products. Includes
wood jig builders and loft workers. Most have a high school diploma or GED
Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic: Mold, shape, form, cast, or carve products
such as food products, figurines, tile, pipes, and candles consisting of clay, glass, plaster, concrete, stone,
or combinations of materials.
Molding and Casting Workers: Perform a variety of duties such as mixing materials, assembling mold
parts, filling molds, and stacking molds to mold and cast a wide range of products. Most have a high
school diploma or GED
Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic:
Set up, operate, or tend metal or plastic molding, casting, or coremaking machines to mold or cast metal
or thermoplastic parts or products. Most have a high school diploma or GED
Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic: Set up, operate, or tend
more than one type of cutting or forming machine tool or robot. Most have a high school diploma or
GED
Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners: Repair percussion, stringed, reed, or wind instruments.
May specialize in one area, such as piano tuning. Most have a vocational certificate
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders: Operate or tend machines to prepare
industrial or consumer products for storage or shipment. Includes cannery workers who pack food
products. Most have a high school diploma or GED
Painters, Transportation Equipment: Operate or tend painting machines to paint surfaces of
transportation equipment, such as automobiles, buses, trucks, trains, boats, and airplanes. Includes
painters in auto body repair facilities. Most have a high school diploma or GED
Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers: Paint, coat, or decorate articles such as furniture, glass,
plateware, pottery, jew elry, toys, books, or leather. Most have less than a high school diploma
Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders: Set up, operate, or tend paper goods
machines that perform a variety of functions, such as converting, sawing, corrugating, banding,
wrapping, boxing, stitching, forming, or sealing paper or paperboard sheets into products. Most have a
high school diploma or GED
Patternmakers, Metal and Plastic: Layout, machine, fit, and assemble castings and parts to metal or
plastic foundry patterns, core boxes, or match plates. Most have a vocational certificate
Patternmakers, Wood: Plan, layout, and construct wooden unit or sectional patterns used in forming
sand molds for castings. Most have a vocational certificate
Photonics Technicians: Build, install, test, or maintain optical or fiber optic equipment, such as lasers,
lenses, or mirrors, using spectrometers, interferometers, or related equipment.
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