Education:
73%
Less than a High School Diploma
16%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
Cutters & Trimmers, Hand
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Job Outlook:
None
Education:
No formal educational credential
Salary
High:
$51,970.00
Average:
$37,830.00
Hourly
Average:
$18.19
What they do:
Use hand tools or hand-held power tools to cut and trim a variety of manufactured items, such as carpet, fabric, stone, glass, or rubber.
On the job, you would:
- Mark or discard items with defects such as spots, stains, scars, snags, chips, scratches, or unacceptable shapes or finishes.
- Trim excess material or cut threads off finished products, such as cutting loose ends of plastic off a manufactured toy for a smoother finish.
- Cut, shape, and trim materials, such as textiles, food, glass, stone, and metal, using knives, scissors, and other hand tools, portable power tools, or bench-mounted tools.
Personality
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Characteristics of this Career |
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83% | Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
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77% | Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
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67% | Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. | |
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67% | Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Strengths |
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100% | Realistic - Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services. | |
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72% | Conventional - Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Values of the Work Environment |
|---|---|---|---|
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61% | Support - Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
Job Details
Responsibilities
Mark products, workpieces, or equipment with identifying information.
Trim excess material from workpieces.
Shape metal workpieces with hammers or other small hand tools.
Cut industrial materials in preparation for fabrication or processing.
Sort materials or products for processing, storing, shipping, or grading.
Mark products, workpieces, or equipment with identifying information.
Read work orders or other instructions to determine product specifications or materials requirements.
Count finished products or workpieces.
Weigh finished products.
Draw guide lines or markings on materials or workpieces using patterns or other references.
Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment.
Stack finished items for further processing or shipment.
Adjust fabrics or other materials during garment production.
Clean workpieces or finished products.
Polish materials, workpieces, or finished products.
Operate grinding equipment.
Measure materials to mark reference points, cutting lines, or other indicators.
Position patterns on equipment, materials, or workpieces.
Operate grinding equipment.
Operate cutting equipment.
Sharpen cutting or grinding tools.
Replace worn equipment components.
Operate cutting equipment.
Set equipment controls to meet cutting specifications.
Move products, materials, or equipment between work areas.
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent |
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92% | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls - How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? | |
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91% | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled - How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? | |
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89% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate - How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
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89% | Spend Time Standing - How much does this job require standing? | |
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76% | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions - How much does this job require making repetitive motions? | |
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69% | Time Pressure - How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Tasks & Values |
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67% | Handling and Moving Objects - Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. | |
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65% | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information - Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |