Glass engraver jobs in Finland
Glass engravers engrave lettering and ornamental designs onto glass articles, using engravers hand tools. They sketch and lay out the lettering and designs on the article, cut the design in the article and finish it.
Glass engraver – how much is the pay in Finland?
What the trade paid in 2024
| Median | 16.45 €/h |
|---|---|
| Bottom tenth | 12.06 €/h |
| Top tenth | 20.36 €/h |
| Employees | 63 |
Glass engraver - Which skills are essential?
Use engraving tools which use steel, stone or copper wheels according to the kind of glass or glassware.
Position and clamp work pieces, plates, or rollers in holding fixtures.
Engrave and print designs and patterns onto a variety of surfaces.
Closely observe the actions of the mechanical cutting tools, resulting in a flawless engraving process.
Make use of protection equipment according to training, instruction and manuals. Inspect the equipment and use it consistently.
Manipulate the properties, shape and size of glass.
The characteristics of various materials and methods used to engrave something on a surface.
Ensure that the necessary equipment is provided, ready and available for use before start of procedures.
Examine diagrams, sketches, blueprints and samples, and calculate how they are to be engraved onto work pieces.
Polish and clean engraved etching areas.
Quality control of engravings and etchings; check for cuts, burns, rough spots and irregular or incomplete engraving.
Glass engraver - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Cover parts from being treated with chemicals in order to protect them.
Use various techniques to ensure the product quality is respecting the quality standards and specifications. Oversee defects, packaging and sendbacks of products to different production departments.
Supply the machine with the necessary tools and items for a particular production purpose.
Process using high pressure sandblasting to carve motifs into materials such as glass, stone, wood and metal.
Regularly inspect and perform all required activities to maintain the equipment in functional order prior or after its use.
Select, prepare and install engraving templates; operate cutting tools and routers.
Use appropriate questions and active listening in order to identify customer expectations, desires and requirements according to product and services.
Operate mechanical engraving tools and machines, set controls of cutting tools. Make adjustments if necessary.
The different parts of a lathe machine and their applications, such as the compound, the bed, the sadle, the cross slide, the cutting tool, the lathe dog and more.
Continuously check up on the automated machine's set-up and execution or make regular control rounds. If necessary, record and interpret data on the operating conditions of installations and equipment in order to identify abnormalities.
Brush or smear acid over mechanic engraving tools, in order to improve the visibility of the inscriptions.
Ensure the machine is fed the necessary and adequate materials and control the placement or automatic feed and retrieval of work pieces in the machines or machine tools on the production line.
Read and interpret such technical resources such as digital or paper drawings and adjustment data in order to properly set up a machine or working tool, or to assemble mechanical equipment.
Prepare mechanical tools and work pieces for etching by polishing their surface and bevelling the work piece to remove sharp edges. Polishing is done using different sandpapers and sand films which are applied and vary from rough to very fine ones.
Prepare mechanical tools and workpieces for engraving by polishing their surface and bevelling the workpiece to remove sharp edges. Polishing is done using different sandpapers and sand films which are applied from rougher ones to very fine ones.
Examine design results to verify engraving accuracy, rework engraving where needed.
Inspect finished etchings in detail, using microscopes and magnifying lenses.
Maintain records of the progress of the work including time, defects, malfunctions, etc.
Set up and give commands to a machine by dispatching the appropriate data and input into the (computer) controller corresponding with the desired processed product.
Use the specific abrasive wheel or the step in the finishing process according to the type of stone or workpiece.
The various machining principles and processes employing abrasives, (mineral) materials that can shape a workpiece by eroding excessive parts of it, such as grinding, honing, sanding, buffing, diamond wire cutting, polishing, abrasive blasting, tumbling, water-jet cutting, and others.
Measure and compute dimensions of lettering, designs and patterns to be engraved.