Education:
74%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
16%
Some College Courses
Crushing, Grinding, & Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, & Tenders
Does this career fit your work personality?
Begin The Career Assessment TestGet Your FIT Score for this career.
?
FIT Score
?
?
?
?
Discover your work personality strengths.
This is a Premium Feature
Find your
- Best Fitting Careers
- Work Personality Strengths
- Work Style Preferences
- and more
Job Outlook:
None
Education:
High school diploma or equivalent
Salary
High:
$63,490.00
Average:
$45,310.00
Hourly
Average:
$21.79
What they do:
Set up, operate, or tend machines to crush, grind, or polish materials, such as coal, glass, grain, stone, food, or rubber.
On the job, you would:
- Observe operation of equipment to ensure continuity of flow, safety, and efficient operation, and to detect malfunctions.
- Examine materials, ingredients, or products, visually or with hands, to ensure conformance to established standards.
- Move controls to start, stop, or adjust machinery and equipment that crushes, grinds, polishes, or blends materials.
Personality
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Characteristics of this Career |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
84% | Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
|
|
83% | Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
|
|
79% | Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. | |
|
|
70% | Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. | |
|
|
70% | Concern for Others - Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. | |
|
|
69% | Self-Control - Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. | |
|
|
66% | Persistence - Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. | |
|
|
66% | Independence - Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. | |
|
|
65% | Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. | |
|
|
63% | Achievement/Effort - Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. | |
|
|
62% | Adaptability/Flexibility - Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. | |
|
|
61% | Leadership - Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. | |
|
|
60% | Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. | |
|
|
59% | Analytical Thinking - Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. | |
|
|
54% | Innovation - Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Strengths |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
100% | Realistic - Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services. | |
|
|
67% | Conventional - Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Values of the Work Environment |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
67% | Support - Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. | |
|
|
56% | Relationships - Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service. |
Aptitude
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
72% | Multilimb Coordination - The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |
|
|
66% | Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |
|
|
66% | Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |
|
|
66% | Reaction Time - The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |
|
|
66% | Rate Control - The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |
|
|
66% | Manual Dexterity - The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |
|
|
66% | Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |
|
|
63% | Hearing Sensitivity - The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. | |
|
|
60% | Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. | |
|
|
60% | Perceptual Speed - The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |
|
|
56% | Auditory Attention - The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |
|
|
56% | Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |
|
|
56% | Category Flexibility - The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |
|
|
53% | Response Orientation - The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. | |
|
|
53% | Selective Attention - The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |
|
|
53% | Flexibility of Closure - The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |
|
|
53% | Static Strength - The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |
|
|
53% | Trunk Strength - The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing. | |
|
|
53% | Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |
|
|
53% | Far Vision - The ability to see details at a distance. | |
|
|
53% | Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |
|
|
53% | Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Skills | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
57% | Operations Monitoring - Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |
|
|
54% | Operation and Control - Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
Job Details
Responsibilities
Read work orders or other instructions to determine product specifications or materials requirements.
Monitor equipment operation to ensure proper functioning.
Operate grinding equipment.
Record operational or production data.
Test chemical or physical characteristics of materials or products.
Measure ingredients or substances to be used in production processes.
Weigh finished products.
Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
Clean production equipment.
Maintain production or processing equipment.
Notify others of equipment repair or maintenance needs.
Operate grinding equipment.
Evaluate quality of materials or products.
Clean work areas.
Move products, materials, or equipment between work areas.
Clear equipment jams.
Inspect production equipment.
Operate pumping systems or equipment.
Test chemical or physical characteristics of materials or products.
Collect samples of materials or products for testing.
Mark products, workpieces, or equipment with identifying information.
Adjust equipment controls to regulate flow of water, cleaning solutions, or other liquids.
Load materials into production equipment.
Mix substances to create chemical solutions.
Prepare materials for processing.
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
99% | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets - How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? | |
|
|
93% | Exposed to Contaminants - How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? | |
|
|
91% | Face-to-Face Discussions - How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? | |
|
|
88% | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable - How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? | |
|
|
87% | Exposed to Hazardous Equipment - How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment? | |
|
|
81% | Work With Work Group or Team - How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? | |
|
|
78% | Contact With Others - How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? | |
|
|
75% | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety - How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? | |
|
|
70% | Consequence of Error - How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? | |
|
|
67% | Frequency of Decision Making - How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? | |
|
|
66% | Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment - How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.) | |
|
|
64% | Spend Time Standing - How much does this job require standing? | |
|
|
63% | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls - How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? | |
|
|
62% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate - How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
|
|
61% | Exposed to High Places - How often does this job require exposure to high places? | |
|
|
59% | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results - How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? | |
|
|
59% | Letters and Memos - How often does the job require written letters and memos? | |
|
|
58% | Time Pressure - How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? | |
|
|
56% | Freedom to Make Decisions - How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? | |
|
|
55% | Telephone - How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? | |
|
|
55% | Outdoors, Exposed to Weather - How often does this job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions? | |
|
|
54% | Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled - How often does this job require working indoors in non-controlled environmental conditions (e.g., warehouse without heat)? | |
|
|
53% | In an Open Vehicle or Equipment - How often does this job require working in an open vehicle or equipment (e.g., tractor)? | |
|
|
52% | Structured versus Unstructured Work - To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? | |
|
|
52% | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions - How much does this job require making repetitive motions? | |
|
|
52% | Coordinate or Lead Others - How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? | |
|
|
52% | Spend Time Walking and Running - How much does this job require walking and running? | |
|
|
51% | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks - How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? | |
|
|
75% | Duration of Typical Work Week - Number of hours typically worked in one week. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Tasks & Values |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
88% | Controlling Machines and Processes - Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). | |
|
|
80% | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates - Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. | |
|
|
79% | Handling and Moving Objects - Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. | |
|
|
72% | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings - Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. | |
|
|
72% | Performing General Physical Activities - Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. | |
|
|
70% | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. | |
|
|
69% | Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. | |
|
|
69% | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials - Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. | |
|
|
68% | Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment - Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles. | |
|
|
67% | Making Decisions and Solving Problems - Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. | |
|
|
67% | Training and Teaching Others - Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. | |
|
|
65% | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards - Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. | |
|
|
65% | Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment - Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft. | |
|
|
62% | Processing Information - Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. | |
|
|
60% | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People - Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. | |
|
|
59% | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. | |
|
|
58% | Documenting/Recording Information - Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. | |
|
|
57% | Analyzing Data or Information - Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. | |
|
|
57% | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information - Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. | |
|
|
55% | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge - Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. | |
|
|
55% | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work - Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. | |
|
|
51% | Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others - Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |