Bonding & Composite Fabricator Salary
in Nebraska, United States

• Fabricates, assembles, reworks, and repairs plastic products, applying knowledge of working characteristics of plastics and bonding techniques, using precision instruments, handtools, power tools, machines, and equipment: reads and interprets blueprints, work orders, and related documentation to determine methods and sequence of operations and dimensional and finish specifications.
• Lays out cutting lines on plastic materials, such as sheet stock and fiberglass or graphite cloth, following template pattern, blueprints, sketches, or sample part, using measuring and marking instruments.
• Cuts material to size, using shears, knives, cutters, scissors, router, or saw.
• Mixes ingredients, such as resins, catalysts, fillers, accelerators, and colors, according to formulas, manually or using mixer.
• Sets up and operates forming machines and presses, or laminates plastic cloth and resins or preimpregnated cloth onto layup mold or bonding fixture, to shape parts.
• Wraps bonding fixture or mold in vacuum bagging materials, attaches fittings to mold or fixture, such as vacuum connections, thermocouples, and probes, and exhausts air from vacuum bag to prepare lamination for curing or bonding.
• Operates oven to cure parts.
• Trims, drills, reams, countersinks, grinds, and finishes parts to specifications, using templates, handtools, and power tools.
• Verifies dimensions of parts, using precision instruments, such as dial indicators, micrometers, and calipers.
• Fits and assembles parts and attaches hardware and fittings, such as brackets and hinges, using clamps, jigs, fixtures, and power tools.

Bonding & Composite Fabricator Job Prevalence in Nebraska, United States

Job family: Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Job family population: 188,520

Estimated population of Bonding & Composite Fabricator jobs: 2,466

Rate of error: 1.6%