Electrical Appliance Manufacturing Machine Operators
Job description
These individuals operate machinery or equipment that manufacture electrical items and parts. They inspect and control the quality of these products. They are employed by manufacturers of electrical equipment and appliances.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Hazardous chemical
- Noise
Main tasks
Machine Operators
- Use machines that make and package batteries.
- Produce light bulbs, fluorescent tubes, and electrical wiring devices.
- Apply protective coatings to various items (freezers, small motors, transformers, etc.).
- Make minor repairs to items rejected from the production line.
- Install and adjust production machinery and equipment.
Controllers and Testers
- Check in-production items and finished products for defects.
- Control the quality of the items.
- Identify and mark defective items for repair.
- Collect, record, and summarize the results of the verifications.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to senior or supervisory positions.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
500
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 18% Female
- 82% Male
Not available.
- 18% Female
- 82% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$38,800
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 334, 33535% of jobs
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NAICS 4116% of jobs
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NAICS 2314% of jobs
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NAICS 336 [excluding 3364]6% of jobs
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NAICS 3336% of jobs
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Others23% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 334, 33535% of jobs
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NAICS 4116% of jobs
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NAICS 2314% of jobs
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NAICS 336 [excluding 3364]6% of jobs
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NAICS 3336% of jobs
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Others23% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
DVS in opération d'équipements de production
Code : 5362
Placement rate: 80.4%
13.3% of graduates pursue further studies
Sometimes required
Controllers
- Experience as an Assembler in the same company is usually required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Quality control analysis
- Active listening
- Information processing
- Reading comprehension
- Result evaluation
- Oral expression
- Critical thought
- Coordination
- Judgment and decision-making
- Monitoring operations
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Near vision
- Written comprehension
- Awareness of issues
- Processing flexibility
- Deductive reasoning
- Selective attention
- Classification
- Information organization
- Inductive reasoning
- Perception speed
- Speech clarity
- Speech recognition
- Distance vision
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Focussed on results
- Autonomy
- Capacity to work in a team
- Knowledge of production and treatment
- Rigour
- Respect standards and regulations
- Sense of observation
- Tolerance to routine work
- Timeliness
Interests
- Make, build, install
- Work manually
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Official name of the NOC 94205
Machine operators and inspectors, electrical apparatus manufacturing
Job titles
- Battery case inspector and tester
- Electrical dry cell inspector - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Battery charger operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Production machine set-up operator - electrical appliance and equipment manufacturing
- Production machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Storage battery assembler
- Machine sleeve assembler - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Machine tube assembler - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Dry cell tube machine assembler - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Automatic coil winder - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Wireworker - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Charger - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Storage battery charger - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Battery charger - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Machine base cement filler - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Press operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Flat cell maker - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Battery case inspector and tester - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrical storage battery inspector
- Electrical light bulb inspector
- Dry battery inspector - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrical dry battery inspector
- Light bulb making inspector
- Incandescent lamp making inspector
- Lead acid battery parts inspector
- Electrical dry cell inspector
- Machine wire-cutter and wire-stripper - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Wire stripper - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Lead acid battery production tester - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Lead acid electrical battery production tester
- Storage battery tester
- Lead acid storage battery tester
- Lead acid storage battery tester - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrical storage battery tester
- Light bulb tester
- Electric bulb maker
- Battery maker
- Electrical plug maker
- Electric fuse maker
- Flat battery maker
- Lead acid storage battery plate maker
- Heating element coil former - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Lead acid storage battery plate former - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrode installer
- Electrical storage battery plate washer and dryer
- Battery assembler
- Dry cell battery assembler
- Flat dry battery assembler
- Industrial battery assembler
- Battery charger assembler
- Lead former - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Dry cell assembler
- Dry cell and battery assembler
- Flat dry cell assembler
- Industrial storage battery plate assembler
- Machine set-up operator - electrical appliance manufacturing
- Operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Charging room operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Forming room operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Dry battery process room operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Balancing machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Balancing machine operator - small electric motors
- Heat seal equipment operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Charger operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrical storage battery charger operator
- Dry cell charge machine operator
- Wafering machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Machine operator - electrical appliance manufacturing
- Machine operator - electrical appliance and equipment manufacturing
- Pasting machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Stacking machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Coating machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Wrapper-stacker operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrical equipment manufacturing machine operator
- Foam machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Spray foam machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Light bulb making machine operator
- Heating element coil-former operator
- Taper operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Dip and bake operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrical-equipment-impregnating machine operator
- Cement-filling machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Base-filling machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Light-bulb-sealing machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Plate-parting machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Epoxy coating machine operator
- Riveting machine operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Brush-lacing and trimming operator - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Storage battery assembly line operator
- Lamination-stacking machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Coater - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Epoxy coater - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Wrapping machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Balancing machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrical equipment impregnator
- Transformer coil impregnator
- Dry cell capping machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Coding machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Cable-coding machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Sleeve-making machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Flat dry cell machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Wafer machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Taper tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Cable-marking machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Top-capping machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Dry battery coremaking machine tender
- Dry cell coremaking machine tender
- Dry cell coremaking machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Wire-numbering machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Filling machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Base-filling machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Light-bulb-sealing machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Crimping machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Press tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Arbor press tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Riveting machine tender - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Production line setter and servicer - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrolytic anode changer
- Lamp filament processor
- Brush lacer and trimmer - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Machine set-up operator - electric equipment manufacturing
- Electrical lamp-making machine set-up man/woman
- Assembly machine set-up person - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrical lead acid storage battery filler
- Base filler - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrical equipment base filler
- Storage battery tube filler - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Production line storage battery repairer - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrical storage battery repairer - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Production line battery repairer - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Machine riveter - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Dry cell sealer - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Electrical connection crimper
- Dry cell assembly machine feeder - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Light bulb inspector and tester
- Armature tester
- Dry battery tester - electrical equipment manufacturing
- Heavy-duty electrical battery charger tester
- Electrical dry cell-making inspector
- Dry cell tester - electrical equipment manufacturing
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
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