If you’ve worked as a coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders, your skills are most similar to those required for the occupations below.

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Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders

• Bindery Workers
• Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
• Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
• Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Photographic Processing Machine Operators
• Plating and Coating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Printing Machine Operators
• Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
• Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders