Description
Pultrusion Machine Operators tend, control, and maintain machines which enable the production of composite materials with consistent cross-sections by adding reinforcement fibres such as fibreglass to the existing material and coating the resulting material with resin; this then is pulled through a heated dye where it becomes cured.
EssentialOptional
Theoretical Knowledge
Practical Skills
feed glass fibre into pultrusion machineset up the controller of a machineconsult technical resourcesmonitor automated machinestroubleshootcontrol temperaturemonitor processing environment conditionsmonitor gaugeuse personal protection equipmentoptimise production processes parametersperform test runperform product testingcontrol production flow remotelymanage wastemeasure materialsclean equipmentreport defective manufacturing materialsinspect quality of productsmaintain equipmentkeep records of work progress