Job Description:

• 1) Tends compression-molding machines that mold thermosetting plastics into products, such as automobile heater housings, ashtrays, buttons, electronic parts, plastic panels, and dishes: Dumps specified amount of plastic powders or pellets into hopper of machine, or positions pellets or sausage-shaped plastics in mold installed on machine.

• 2) Starts machine that compresses plastic into mold under heat and pressure, and allows plastic to set for specified time.

• 3) Removes product from mold and cleans mold, hopper, and bed of machine, using airhose and handtools.

• 4) May place plastics material on hot grid or in oven to soften it prior to molding.

• 5) May weigh prescribed amount of material for molding.

• 6) May place plastic sheet into machine fixture to fabricate buttons.