Wire weaving machine operator jobs in Finland
Wire weaving machine operators set up and tend wire weaving machines, designed to produce woven metal wire cloth out of the alloys or ductile metal that can be drawn into wire.
Wire weaving machine operator – how much is the pay in Finland?
What the trade paid in 2024
| Median | 19.36 €/h |
|---|---|
| Bottom tenth | 14.22 €/h |
| Top tenth | 24.89 €/h |
| Employees | 5,344 |
Pay by sex, 2024
| Sex | Median | Employees |
|---|---|---|
| Women | 17.37 €/h | 588 |
| Men | 19.71 €/h | 4,756 |
Wire weaving machine operator - Which skills are essential?
Various types of weave patterns used in the manufacturing of wire mesh, such as plain weave, Dutch weave, twilled weave, five heddle weave.
Supply the machine with the necessary tools and items for a particular production purpose.
Tend a machine designed for weaving cold metal wire into mesh, monitor and operate it, according to regulations.
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.
Remove individual workpieces after processing, from the manufacturing machine or the machine tool. In case of a conveyor belt this involves quick, continuous movement.
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.
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.
Various types of mesh used in the wire weaving process, such as crimped wire mesh, welded wire mesh, expanded wire mesh, perforated wire mesh.
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.
Handle fabricated, drawn metal wire safely by calculating the risks and dangers of its unreliable nature due to spring force and resilience.
Wire weaving machine operator - 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.
Keep records of the machine's faults, interventions and irregularities for quality control.
Apply preparatory treatment, through mechanical or chemical processes, to the workpiece preceding the main operation.
Test processed workpieces or products for basic faults.
The most optimal rotation or cycle time and over-all quality of a tool or a machine's processes.
Various processing methods on iron and iron-containing alloys such as steel, stainless steel and pig iron.
The variety of technologies and techniques, such as forging, pressing, stamping, rolling and others, used for the forming processes of metal product manufacturing.
Wear relevant and necessary protective gear, such as protective goggles or other eye protection, hard hats, safety gloves.
Monitor the flow of the work pieces on the conveyor belt as they are processed by the machine to ensure optimal productivity.
The manufacture of metal cable, plaited bands and other articles of that typr, uninsulated or insulated cable not capable of being used as a conductor of electricity, coated or cored wire as well as barbed wire, wire fencing, grill, netting, cloth etc. Manufacture of coated electrodes for electric arc-welding, nails and pins, chain and springs (except watch springs): as well as leaves for springs.
Tend a drawing machine designed for forming cold or hot metal into wire, monitor and operate it, according to regulations.
The qualities and applications of various kinds of dies, the different components of a die (such as the die block, punch plate, pierce punch and others) and the types of die used in specialised manufacturing processes ( such as extrusion dies, drawing dies, forming dies, cutting dies, compound dies, and others).
Offer help and advice to service technicians in case of machine malfunctions and other repair tasks.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect malfunction. Service, repair, adjust, and test machines, parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical principles. Maintain and repair vehicles meant for cargo, passengers, farming and landscaping.
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.
Ensure the necessary, usually constant, temperature of processed metal workpieces during metal fabrication processes.
Metal processes linked to the different types of metal, such as casting processes, heat treatment processes, repair processes and other metal manufacturing processes.
Transport heavy objects using lifting equipment such as cranes, forklifts etc.
The manufacture of tins and cans for food products, collapsible tubes and boxes, and of metallic closures.
Maintain records of the progress of the work including time, defects, malfunctions, etc.
The various types of drawing processes in metal fabrication, such as wire drawing, bar drawing, tube drawing, and others.