Grinding Mill Operator Salary
in Washington, United States

• Operates panelboard to control machinery and equipment, such as conveyor belts, vibrating feeders, rod and ball mills, centrifugal separators, distributors, magnetic separators, and pumps to grind ore and scrap metal and to separate iron particles from gangue.
• Prepares and changes automatic controls on panel to regulate feed flow of conveyors, flow of lubricant to rod and ball mill bearings, and flow of water to mills and separators.
• Starts grinding and separating machinery and equipment.
• Observes lights, dials, and gauges, and turns levers or pushes buttons on panel to adjust operating conditions, such as temperature of mill bearings, amount of electric current flowing through mill drive motors, and rate of ore and scrap metal flowing from feeder conveyors.

Grinding Mill Operator Job Prevalence in Washington, United States

Job family: Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Job family population: 31,390

Estimated population of Grinding Mill Operator jobs: 2,281

Rate of error: 3.0%