Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
SOC Code: 51-9023
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenderss weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to requirements. This career typically requires moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year). With an AI-proof score of 73.3/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Operations Monitoring, Operation and Control, Operations Monitoring.
AI-Proof Score: 73.3 — High
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Median Salary
$47,680
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Job Growth
-6.8%
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Training Time
Moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year)
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Job Zone
Zone 2 / 5
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Training Cost
~$5,000
Key Skills
- •Operations Monitoring
- •Operation and Control
- •Time Management
- •Quality Control Analysis
- •Repairing
- •Troubleshooting
- •Equipment Maintenance
- •Monitoring
Common Tasks
- ✓Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to requirements.
- ✓Read work orders to determine production specifications or information.
- ✓Observe production or monitor equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.
- ✓Mix or blend ingredients by starting machines and mixing for specified times.
- ✓Stop mixing or blending machines when specified product qualities are obtained and open valves and start pumps to transfer mixtures.
Training & Resources
Why AI-Proof?
- ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
- ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
- ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
- ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation