Tumbling machine operator jobs in Finland
Tumbling machine operators set up and operate tumbling machines, often wet or drie tumbling barrels, designed to remove excess material and burrs of heavy metal workpieces and precious metals and to improve surface appearance, by rotating the metal pieces in a barrel together with grit and potentially water, allowing for the friction between the pieces mutually and with the grit to cause a rounding, smooth effect.
Tumbling machine operator – how much is the pay in Finland?
What the trade paid in 2024
| Median | 17.42 €/h |
|---|---|
| Bottom tenth | 13.71 €/h |
| Top tenth | 22.56 €/h |
| Employees | 1,536 |
Pay by sex, 2024
| Sex | Median | Employees |
|---|---|---|
| Women | 16.50 €/h | 208 |
| Men | 17.65 €/h | 1,328 |
Tumbling machine operator - Which skills are essential?
Evaluate which deficient processed workpieces do not meet the set-up standard and should be removed and sort the waste according to regulations.
Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.
Observe and identify various kinds of imperfections in metal workpieces or finished products. Recognise the best fitted manner of fixing the problem, which could be caused by corrosion, rust, fractures, leaks, and other signs of wear.
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.
Monitor the processing of a workpiece in motion, such as a piece of metal or wood moved linearly over a static manufacturing machine.
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.
Wear relevant and necessary protective gear, such as protective goggles or other eye protection, hard hats, safety gloves.
Various parts of a tumbling machine, such as a deburr tub, tumbling barrel, tumbling compound and steel media ceramic polishing pins, their qualities and applications.
Ensure that the necessary equipment is provided, ready and available for use before start of procedures.
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.
Qualities, specifications, applications and reactions to different fabricating processes of various types of metal, such as steel, aluminium, brass, copper and others.
The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.
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.
Inspect and smooth burred surfaces of steel and metal parts.
Tend a machine designed to smoothen metal or stone surfaces by having the different pieces rub against each other inside a tumbling barrel, monitor and operate it according to regulations.
Tumbling machine operator - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Process of tumbling, employing water and other agents inside a wet tumbling barrel to clean and remove burrs from metal parts and stones in order to smoothen 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.
Keep records of the machine's faults, interventions and irregularities for quality control.
The manufacture of different cutlery items, such as forks, spoons, knives, razors or scissors.
Various processing methods on iron and iron-containing alloys such as steel, stainless steel and pig iron.
Variations of precious metals according to density, corrossion resistance, electrical conductivity, light reflectivity and quality.
The manufacture of rivets, washers and similar non-threaded products, screw machine products, screws, nuts and similar threaded products.
Perform regular maintenance, possibly including corrections and alterations, on a machine or machine tool to ensure it remains in a proper productive state.
Offer help and advice to service technicians in case of machine malfunctions and other repair tasks.
Measure the evenness of a workpiece's surface after it has been processed by checking for deviations from the desired perpendicular state.
Metal processes linked to the different types of metal, such as casting processes, heat treatment processes, repair processes and other metal manufacturing processes.
Maintain records of the progress of the work including time, defects, malfunctions, etc.
The process of tumbling, not employing water to clean and remove burrs, but tumbling metal parts in a dry media and compound mixture in order to smoothen them, creating a hand-buffed appearance.
The various technologies used for the smoothening, polishing and buffing of fabricated metal workpieces.
The various usages of the metal tumbling process, such as the cleaning, burnishing, deburring, descaling, rust-removing, surface hardening, de-flashing, polishing, brightening, and others, of metal work pieces.
Various processing methods on precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum.