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Adhesive Bonding Machine Operator

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AVG. SALARY

$43,230

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EDUCATION

High school preferred +

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JOB OUTLOOK

Stable

What They Do

Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders Career Video

About This Career

Operates or tends bonding machines that use adhesives to join items for further processing or to form a completed product. Processes include joining veneer sheets into plywood; gluing paper; or joining rubber and rubberized fabric parts, plastic, simulated leather, or other materials.

This career is part of the Manufacturing cluster Production pathway.

A person in this career:

  • Aligns and positions materials being joined to ensure accurate application of adhesive or heat sealing.
  • Adjusts machine components according to specifications such as widths, lengths, and thickness of materials and amounts of glue, cement, or adhesive required.
  • Monitors machine operations to detect malfunctions and reports or resolves problems.
  • Starts machines, and turns valves or moves controls to feed, admit, apply, or transfer materials and adhesives, and to adjust temperature, pressure, and time settings.
  • Fills machines with glue, cement, or adhesives.
  • Performs test production runs and makes adjustments as necessary to ensure that completed products meet standards and specifications.
  • Examines and measures completed materials or products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring devices such as tape measures, gauges, or calipers.
  • Reads work orders and communicates with coworkers to determine machine and equipment settings and adjustments and supply and product specifications.
  • Removes and stacks completed materials or products, and restocks materials to be joined.
  • Maintains production records such as quantities, dimensions, and thicknesses of materials processed.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

People who do this job report that:

  • You would often handle loads up to 10 lbs., sometimes up to 20 lbs. You might do a lot of walking or standing, or you might sit but use your arms and legs to control machines, equipment or tools.
  • Work in this occupation involves use of protective items such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, a hard hat, or personal flotation devices
  • Exposure to pollutants, gases, dust, fumes, odors, poor ventilation, etc.
  • Work in this occupation involves using your hands to hold, control, and feel objects more than one-third of the time
  • Exposed to hazardous equipment such as saws, machinery, or vehicular traffic more than once a month
  • Work in this occupation requires being inside most of the time
  • Sound and noise levels are loud and distracting
  • Work in this occupation involves making repetitive motions more than one-third of the time
  • Work in this occupation involves standing more than one-third of the time
  • Work in this occupation involves walking or running more than one-third of the time

Working in this career involves (physical activities):

  • Picking out a particular sound in the presence of other sounds
  • Judging how far away an object is, or which of several objects is closer or farther away
  • Using muscles repeatedly or over time without tiring
  • Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching
  • Seeing clearly up close
  • Speaking clearly enough to be able to be understood by others
  • Identifying and understanding the speech of another person
  • Exerting oneself physically over long periods of time without getting out of breath
  • Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying objects
  • Using abdominal and lower back muscles repeatedly or over time without tiring

Work Hours and Travel

  • Rotating shift work

Specialty and Similar Careers

Careers that are more detailed or close to this career:

  • Coater Operator
  • Glue Line Operator
  • Glue Reel Operator
  • Gluer Machine Operator
  • Gluing Pressman
  • Machine Operator
  • Perfect Bind Machine Operator
  • Sealer Operator
  • Utility Worker

Contact

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  • 1-800-GO-TO-XAP (1-800-468-6927)
    From outside the U.S., please call +1 (424) 750-3900

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