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Manufacturing
- Annual Median Wage$ 34,460$23,760
$48,930Annual NC Wage Range
Growth Rate
Slow Growing
- Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders operate or tend bonding machines that use adhesives to join items for further processing or to form a completed product. The processes include joining veneer sheets into plywood, gluing paper, or joining rubber and rubberized fabric parts, plastic, simulated leather, or other materials.
What do they typically do
- Fill machines with glue, cement, or adhesives
- Use devices like tape measures, gauges, or calipers to measure completed materials or products to make sure they conform to specifications
- Start machines and turn valves or move controls to feed, admit, apply, or transfer materials and adhesives, and to adjust temperature, pressure, and time settings
- Read work orders and communicate with coworkers to determine machine and equipment settings/ adjustments and product specifications
- Keep production records such as quantities, dimensions, and thicknesses of materials processed
- Monitor machine operations to find malfunctions, and report or fix problems
- Mount or load material such as paper, plastic, wood, or rubber in feeding mechanisms of cementing or gluing machines
- Adjust machine components according to specifications such as widths, lengths, and thickness of materials and amounts of glue, cement, or adhesive required
Number of Jobs
Average AnnualJob Growth +0.5%Job Opening 85Education & Training
- Education These occupations usually require a high school diploma.Associated Programs or MajorsLicenseMore
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