Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Set up, operate, or tend machines to mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.
What you’d do
- Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to requirements.
- Read work orders to determine production specifications or information.
- Observe production or monitor equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.
- Mix or blend ingredients by starting machines and mixing for specified times.
- Stop mixing or blending machines when specified product qualities are obtained and open valves and start pumps to transfer mixtures.
- Compound or process ingredients or dyes, according to formulas.
- Examine materials, ingredients, or products visually or with hands to ensure conformance to established standards.
- Operate or tend machines to mix or blend any of a wide variety of materials, such as spices, dough batter, tobacco, fruit juices, chemicals, livestock feed, food products, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.
Skills that matter
- Operation and Control
- Operations Monitoring
- Critical Thinking
- Equipment Maintenance
- Monitoring
- Quality Control Analysis
How to get there
Little to some preparation: usually a high school diploma or GED, though some jobs do not need one
Also called
- Blender
- Machine Operator
- Mixer
- Mixer Operator
- Batchmaker
- Blending Technician (Blending Tech)
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