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Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Set up, operate, or tend paper goods machines that perform a variety of functions, such as converting, sawing, corrugating, banding, wrapping, boxing, stitching, forming, or sealing paper or paperboard sheets into products.

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

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Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

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Miscellaneous Production Workers

Production Occupations

Other Production Occupations

Examine completed work to detect defects and verify conformance to work orders, and adjust machinery as necessary to correct production problems.

Observe operation of various machines to detect and correct machine malfunctions such as improper forming, glue flow, or pasteboard tension.

Start machines and move controls to regulate tension on pressure rolls, to synchronize speed of machine components, and to adjust temperatures of glue or paraffin.

Disassemble machines to maintain, repair, or replace broken or worn parts, using hand or power tools.

Install attachments to machines for gluing, folding, printing, or cutting.

Cut products to specified dimensions, using hand or power cutters.

Place rolls of paper or cardboard on machine feed tracks, and thread paper through gluing, coating, and slitting rollers.

Monitor finished cartons as they drop from forming machines into rotating hoppers and into gravity feed chutes to prevent jamming.

Adjust guide assemblies, forming bars, and folding mechanisms according to specifications, using hand tools.

Measure, space, and set saw blades, cutters, and perforators, according to product specifications.

Fill glue and paraffin reservoirs, and position rollers to dispense glue onto paperboard.

Stamp products with information such as dates, using hand stamps or automatic stamping devices.

Remove finished cores, and stack or place them on conveyors for transfer to other work areas.

Lift tote boxes of finished cartons, and dump cartons into feed hoppers.

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Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

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