Careers / Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
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Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Read the work order, mount the workpiece in the chuck, dial in the wheel speed, run a test piece, measure it with a micrometer, adjust offsets, run the batch, pull random parts every hour to check tolerances, and log any rejects before the shift supervisor walks the floor.

Median$45k
Jobs in U.S.70k
10-yr outlook-12%
Entry ed.High school diploma or equivalent
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Careers / Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
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Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Read the work order, mount the workpiece in the chuck, dial in the wheel speed, run a test piece, measure it with a micrometer, adjust offsets, run the batch, pull random parts every hour to check tolerances, and log any rejects before the shift supervisor walks the floor.

Median$45k
Jobs in U.S.70k
10-yr outlook-12%
Entry ed.High school diploma or equivalent
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Get the full brief.

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  • Pay over the career, entry to senior
  • A real day in the life, start to finish
  • Real employers from the last 12 months
  • Related careers worth comparing

Email magic-link sign-in is coming next. For now Google handles the auth — we never see your password and we never ask for your age.