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O*NET detailed work activitySmooth garments with irons, presses, or steamers
Stays humanHands-on work
3 jobs13 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, 13 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles.
- Push and pull irons over surfaces of articles to smooth or shape them.
- Lower irons, rams, or pressing heads of machines into position over material to be pressed.
- Press garments, using hand irons or pressing machines.
- Finish pants, jackets, shirts, skirts and other dry-cleaned and laundered articles, using hand irons.
- Finish pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or from work orders, using machine presses or hand irons.
- Slide material back and forth over heated, metal, ball-shaped forms to smooth and press portions of garments that cannot be satisfactorily pressed with flat pressers or hand irons.
- Press ties on small pressing machines.
- Finish fancy garments such as evening gowns and costumes, using hand irons to produce high quality finishes.
- Insert heated metal forms into ties and touch up rough places with hand irons.
- Finish velvet garments by steaming them on bucks of hot-head presses or steam tables, and brushing pile (nap) with handbrushes.
- Iron or press articles, fabrics, and furs, using hand irons or pressing machines.