Stone polisher jobs in Finland
Stone polishers operate grinding and polishing tools and equipment in order to smooth stones.
Stone polisher – how much is the pay in Finland?
What the trade paid in 2024
| Median | 19.02 €/h |
|---|---|
| Bottom tenth | 15.24 €/h |
| Top tenth | 24.21 €/h |
| Employees | 3,341 |
Pay by sex, 2024
| Sex | Median | Employees |
|---|---|---|
| Women | 18.01 €/h | 127 |
| Men | 19.06 €/h | 3,214 |
Stone polisher - Which skills are essential?
Different types of stone that stonemasons and other stone workers use to process into building materials. The mechanical properties of stone, such as their weight, tensile strength, durability. Economical properties such as cost, transport and sourcing.
Supply the machine with the necessary tools and items for a particular production purpose.
Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.
Remove individual workpieces after processing, from the manufacturing machine or the machine tool. In case of a conveyor belt this involves quick, continuous movement.
The most optimal rotation or cycle time and over-all quality of a tool or a machine's processes.
Prepare the stone for the smoothing process by wetting it with the hose.
Types of protective materials and equipment foreseen for various types of tasks such as general or specialised cleaning activities.
Ensure that the necessary equipment is provided, ready and available for use before start of procedures.
Inspect the surface of the stone to identify any uneven areas.
The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.
Use the specified polishing compounds such as emery powder, spreading it on the stone.
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.
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.
Wash the stone chips obtained while drilling, by using water hose.
Adhere to standards of hygiene and safety established by respective authorities.
Polish stone using polishing tools and machines in order to obtained a smooth and lustrous product.
Use the specific abrasive wheel or the step in the finishing process according to the type of stone or workpiece.
Measure the raw materials prior to their loading in the mixer or in machines, ensuring they conform with the specifications.
Stone polisher - Which skills are useful but not essential?
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.
Operate a forklift, a vehicle with a pronged device in front for lifting and carrying heavy loads.
Evaluate which deficient processed workpieces do not meet the set-up standard and should be removed and sort the waste according to regulations.
Measure the size of a processed part when checking and marking it to check if it is up to standard by use of two and three dimensional precision measuring equipment such as a caliper, a micrometer, and a measuring gauge.
Perform tests putting a system, machine, tool or other equipment through a series of actions under actual operating conditions in order to assess its reliability and suitability to realise its tasks, and adjust settings accordingly.
Regularly inspect and perform all required activities to maintain the equipment in functional order prior or after its use.
Use appropriate questions and active listening in order to identify customer expectations, desires and requirements according to product and services.
Read and comprehend standard blueprints, machine, and process drawings.
Wax the cracks and the imperfections of finished stones, selecting the wax according to the stone colour.
Operate mechanical engraving tools and machines, set controls of cutting tools. Make adjustments if necessary.
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.
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.
Maintain required company records and forms in order to report any defective materials or questionable conditions of manufacturing machinery and equipment.
Measure the evenness of a workpiece's surface after it has been processed by checking for deviations from the desired perpendicular state.
Transport heavy objects using lifting equipment such as cranes, forklifts etc.
Keep a record of data such as name, colour and quantity of the produced goods.
Create special surface textures on stones using specific tools and techniques such as blasting, grinding, etching, polishing, bush-hammering or flaming. Take the characteristics of the stone into account to choose the technique.
Sketch, draw or design sketches and drawings from memory, live models, manufactured products or reference materials in the process of crafting and sculpting.
Maintain records of the progress of the work including time, defects, malfunctions, etc.
Mark planes, lines and points onto a stone workpiece to show where material will be removed.
Polish by hand the stone parts which cannot be polished by a machine, rubbing it with abrasive blocks.
Operate a variety of hand tools designed for grinding production materials, such as angle grinders, die grinders, grindstones, bench grinders, and others.
Theoretical and practical applications of the science studying the action of displacements and forces on physical bodies to the development of machinery and mechanical devices.
Use lifting equipment to lower the heavy pieces into boxes and guide them by hand to make sure they take the right place. Wrap the pieces in a protective material. When all the pieces are in the box, secure them with separating material such as cardboard to prevent them from moving and from sliding against each other during transportation.
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.