A professional who tends equipment that automatically applies and bakes enamel or other coating onto fabricated steel products. Respnsibilities include:

• Fills machine reservoir with coating solution, such as lacquer, enamel, or varnish.
• Starts conveyor or feed rolls that carry products to be coated and baked, through equipment.
• Sets heating unit at specified temperature and starts pumps and exhaust fans.
• Feeds products onto conveyor or between feed rolls that apply coating.
• Examines products emerging from baking unit for conformance to coating thickness and appearance specifications.
• May mix coating to prescribed viscosity, using viscometer.
• May gauge thickness of coating to determine adherence to quality control specifications, using dial indicator.
• May be designated according to equipment or process employed as flash-oven operator; operator, coating furnace; or according to product coated as coating-machine operator, metal tags and signs.