Surface treatment operator jobs in Finland
Surface treatment operators apply chemicals and paint to the material surface in order to protect against corrosion. They calculate the materials needed for surface protection.
Surface treatment operator – how much is the pay in Finland?
What the trade paid in 2024
| Median | 17.59 €/h |
|---|---|
| Bottom tenth | 12.67 €/h |
| Top tenth | 24.69 €/h |
| Employees | 2,451 |
Pay by sex, 2024
| Sex | Median | Employees |
|---|---|---|
| Women | 16.14 €/h | 330 |
| Men | 17.78 €/h | 2,121 |
Surface treatment operator - Which skills are essential?
The various types of oxidation reactions with the environment, such as rusting, copper pitting, stress cracking, and others.
The behaviour of solid objects when subjected to stresses and strains, and the methods to calculate these stresses and strains.
Wear relevant and necessary protective gear, such as protective goggles or other eye protection, hard hats, safety gloves.
Read and comprehend standard blueprints, machine, and process drawings.
The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.
Handle chemicals and select specific ones for certain processes. Be aware of the reactions which arise from combining them.
Read the technical drawings of a product made by the engineer in order to suggest improvements, make models of the product or operate it.
Adhere to standards of hygiene and safety established by respective authorities.
Surface treatment operator - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Monitor the painting in progress to prevent flaws.
Mix chemical substances safely according to recipe, using the proper dosages.
The various steps in the process of dipping a workpiece in a coating material solution, including immersion, start-up, deposition, drainage, and, possibly, evaporation.
The process of plating together different types of metals through hydrolysis, silver plating, chromium plating, or copper plating. Electroplating allows for the combination of different metals with different properties in product manufacturing.
Regularly inspect and perform all required activities to maintain the equipment in functional order prior or after its use.
Tend a metalworking machine designed to smoothen a metal surface by applying grinding, abrasive machine processes, monitor and operate it according to regulations.
The various kinds of paint used as coating in manufacturing finishing processes, such as primers, intermediate coats, finish coats, stripe coats, and others.
Tend a metalworking machine designed to coat metal surfaces by using electric current to form metal coatings on an electrode and on the workpiece, monitor and operate it according to regulations.
Tend the different stations of a metalworking machine designed to form anode electrodes as part of the anodising process. This includes tending the coil feed operation station, the pre-treatment and cleaning tanks, the anodise tanks, the post treatment facility and the coil rewind equipment; monitor and operate all according to regulations.
Tend a manufacturing machine designed to coat workpiece surfaces by applying dip-coating machine processes, monitor and operate it according to regulations.
The various steps necessary in the process of forming an electrical circuit's anode electrode in order to increase the density of the natural oxide layer on the surface of a metal workpiece hereby enhancing corrosion and wear. These steps include: pre-cleaning, masking and racking, degreasing and rinsing, etching and rinsing, deoxidising and rinsing, anodising and rinsing, sealing and drying, and inspection.