Careers / Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
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Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Read the work order, mount the stock in the vise, dial in the cutter height with a micrometer, run the program, pull the part, measure it three ways, and write the rejection tag when it's two thousandths off — then figure out why.

Median$48k
Jobs in U.S.14k
10-yr outlook-14.4%
Entry ed.High school diploma or equivalent
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Careers / Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Career · Trades family

Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Read the work order, mount the stock in the vise, dial in the cutter height with a micrometer, run the program, pull the part, measure it three ways, and write the rejection tag when it's two thousandths off — then figure out why.

Median$48k
Jobs in U.S.14k
10-yr outlook-14.4%
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.