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Bonding Machine Operator

Bonding Machine Operator

  • Ideal for those who love precision and hands-on work with diverse materials.
  • Play a key role in creating products by expertly joining materials with adhesives.
  • Unique chance to work with cutting-edge bonding machines in various industries.
💰 Earn $34K-$52K
📚 High School Diploma or GED

Overview

Operate or tend bonding machines that use adhesives to join items for further processing or to form a completed product. Processes include joining veneer sheets into plywood; gluing paper; or joining rubber and rubberized fabric parts, plastic, simulated leather, or other materials.

Scoop

Minimum Education

High School Diploma or GED

Career Prospects

Steady (Staying constant (within 1%))

Training Time

6 months to 1 year

Job Openings

1,200 in Total

Earnings

$35,930 Med. in CA

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Day-to-Day

  • Align and position materials being joined to ensure accurate application of adhesive or heat sealing.
  • Adjust machine components according to specifications such as widths, lengths, and thickness of materials and amounts of glue, cement, or adhesive required.
  • Monitor machine operations to detect malfunctions and report or resolve problems.
  • Start machines, and turn valves or move controls to feed, admit, apply, or transfer materials and adhesives, and to adjust temperature, pressure, and time settings.
  • Fill machines with glue, cement, or adhesives.

Best For You If...

YOU Like 💕

  • Using data or completing tasks
  • Working with my hands

You are skilled in 💫

  • Monitoring
  • Active Listening
  • Critical Thinking
  • Operations Monitoring
  • Operation and Control
  • Judgment and Decision Making

You value 🙏

  • Having support
  • Accomplishing things
  • Support
  • Achievement
  • Relationships
  • Personal relationships

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