Occupation

Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Human Advantage 57%

Moderate human-AI collaboration

AI Automation Risk Moderate Risk
3.8 / 10

Some tasks in this role may be augmented by AI, but human oversight and interpersonal skills remain important.

Set up, operate, or tend machines to mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.

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Core Tasks

  1. Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to requirements.
  2. Read work orders to determine production specifications or information.
  3. Observe production or monitor equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.
  4. Mix or blend ingredients by starting machines and mixing for specified times.
  5. Stop mixing or blending machines when specified product qualities are obtained and open valves and start pumps to transfer mixtures.
  6. Compound or process ingredients or dyes, according to formulas.
  7. Examine materials, ingredients, or products visually or with hands to ensure conformance to established standards.
  8. Operate or tend machines to mix or blend any of a wide variety of materials, such as spices, dough batter, tobacco, fruit juices, chemicals, livestock feed, food products, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.
  9. Dump or pour specified amounts of materials into machinery or equipment.
  10. Record operational or production data on specified forms.
  11. Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory testing.
  12. Unload mixtures into containers or onto conveyors for further processing.
  13. Clean work areas.
  14. Add or mix chemicals or ingredients for processing, using hand tools or other devices.
  15. Tend accessory equipment, such as pumps or conveyors, to move materials or ingredients through production processes.
  16. Transfer materials, supplies, or products between work areas, using moving equipment or hand tools.
  17. Clean and maintain equipment, using hand tools.
  18. Dislodge and clear jammed materials or other items from machinery or equipment, using hand tools.

Supplemental Tasks (2)

  1. Test samples of materials or products to ensure compliance with specifications, using test equipment.
  2. Open valves to drain slurry from mixers into storage tanks.

Education & Training

Job Zone 2 Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Education: These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Experience: Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
On-the-Job Training: Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.

Education Level Distribution

Percentage of workers in this occupation with each education level.

High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
80%
Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production)
12%
Some College Courses
6%
Less than a High School Diploma
2%

Technology & Tools

Hot Technologies

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Microsoft Word
  • SAP software

Software (11)

  • Email software
  • Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Operational databases
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Word processing software

Tools & Equipment (27)

  • Adjustable wrenches
  • Claw hammers
  • Desktop computers
  • Dollies
  • Forklifts
  • Gram scales
  • Handtrucks
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Hydrometers
  • Locking pliers
  • Measuring sticks
  • Overhead cranes
  • Pallet movers
  • Personal computers
  • Phillips head screwdrivers
  • Platform scales
  • Power drills
  • Remote reading electronic thermometers
  • Safety gloves
  • Safety goggles
  • Safety masks
  • Steam cleaning equipment
  • Straight screwdrivers
  • Tuggers
  • Viscosity meters
  • Wire brushes
  • pH indicators

Where This Career Leads

Career progression organized by specialty track and experience level.

Production & Automation Advanced Manufacturing

Zone 1
Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers 80% match
Zone 2
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders You are here
Zone 3
Chemical Technicians 80% match
Zone 4
Fuel Cell Engineers 78% match
Zone 5
Microsystems Engineers 75% match

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