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O*NET detailed work activityOperate painting or coating equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
7 jobs12 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Operate industrial processing or production equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Controlling Machines and Processes. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 12 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Set up, operate, or tend plating or coating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces.
- Start and stop operation of machines, using levers or buttons.
- Operate auxiliary machines or equipment used in coating or painting processes.
- Adjust controls to set temperatures of coating substances and speeds of machines and equipment.
- Paint metal surfaces electrostatically, or by using a spray gun or other painting equipment.
- Control equipment that coats lenses to alter their reflective qualities.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Observe gauges to ensure that machines are operating properly, making adjustments or stopping machines when problems occur.
- Monitor painting operations to identify flaws, such as blisters or streaks, and correct their causes.
- Turn dials, handwheels, valves, or switches to regulate conveyor speeds, machine temperature, air pressure and circulation, and the flow or spray of coatings or paints.
- Examine finished surfaces of workpieces to verify conformance to specifications and retouch any defective areas.
- Paint structures as specified, using paint sprayers.
- Paint bicycle frames, using spray guns or brushes.