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O*NET detailed work activityShape glass or similar materials
Stays humanHands-on work
3 jobs6 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 Shape materials to create products, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 6 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Shape, bend, or join sections of glass, using paddles, pressing and flattening hand tools, or cork.
- Blow tubing into specified shapes to prevent glass from collapsing, using compressed air or own breath, or blow and rotate gathers in molds or on boards to obtain final shapes.
- Set up machines to polish, bevel, edge, or grind lenses, flats, blanks, or other precision optical elements.
- Shape lenses appropriately so that they can be inserted into frames.
- Operate electric kilns that heat and mold glass sheets to the shape and curve of metal jigs.
- Split gems along pre-marked lines to remove imperfections, using blades and jewelers' hammers.