CompGeo Cutters and Trimmers, Hand Salary Survey Benchmark Job Description and Competencies - Manufacturing Occupation Group

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Cutters and Trimmers, Hand

Summary Job Description

Tasks

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.

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.

Separate materials or products according to size, weight, type, condition, color, or shade.

Mark identification numbers, trademarks, grades, marketing data, sizes, or model numbers on products.

Read work orders to determine dimensions, cutting locations, and quantities to cut.

Count or weigh and bundle items.

Mark cutting lines around patterns or templates, or follow layout points, using squares, rules, and straightedges, and chalk, pencils, or scribes.

Unroll, lay out, attach, or mount materials or items on cutting tables or machines.

Stack cut items and load them on racks or conveyors or onto trucks.

Fold or shape materials before or after cutting them.

Clean, treat, buff, or polish finished items, using grinders, brushes, chisels, and cleaning solutions and polishing materials.

Position templates or measure materials to locate specified points of cuts or to obtain maximum yields, using rules, scales, or patterns.

Route items to provide cutouts for parts, using portable routers, grinders, and hand tools.

Replace or sharpen dulled cutting tools such as saws.

Lower table-mounted cutters such as knife blades, cutting wheels, or saws to cut items to specified sizes.

Adjust guides and stops to control depths and widths of cuts.

Transport items to work or storage areas, using carts.

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Cutters and Trimmers, Hand

Important Knowledge Competencies

Competency Description

Production and Processing

Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

Mathematics

Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Cutters and Trimmers, Hand

Important Skill Competencies

Competency Description

Active Listening

Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Social Perceptiveness

Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Judgment and Decision Making

Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Time Management

Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Reading Comprehension

Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

Speaking

Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Monitoring

Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Cutters and Trimmers, Hand

Important Ability Competencies

Competency Description

Manual Dexterity

The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.

Arm-Hand Steadiness

The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

Finger Dexterity

The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

Near Vision

The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

Oral Comprehension

The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Information Ordering

The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Category Flexibility

The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

Control Precision

The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

Visual Color Discrimination

The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.

Speech Recognition

The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Oral Expression

The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

Problem Sensitivity

The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

Deductive Reasoning

The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Inductive Reasoning

The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Written Comprehension

The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Perceptual Speed

The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.

Selective Attention

The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

Multilimb Coordination

The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.

Reaction Time

The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.

Static Strength

The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.

Speech Clarity

The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Cutters and Trimmers, Hand

Prerequisite Qualification Category

Education and Experience Level

On-Site or In-Plant Training

Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year

Required Level of Education

Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in Personnel Services, Engineering-related Technologies, Vocational Home Economics, Construction Trades, Mechanics and Repairers, Precision Production Trades)

Required Level of Education

High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate)

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Cutters and Trimmers, Hand

Alternate Job Title(s)

Aluminum Sheet Cutter

Banana Room Cutter

Basket Mender

Basting Cleaner

Basting Puller

Belt Splicer

Bow Maker

Bright Cutter

Bucker

Bundler

Button Cutting Machine Operator

Buttoner

Buttonhole Maker

Buttonhole Marker

Candle Cutter

Cane Cutter

Carpet Cutter

Chalk Cutter

Cherry Cutter

Clipper

Cloth Cutter

Computerized Machine Fabric Cutter

Computerized Table Cutter

Cotton Dispatcher

Cripple Worker

Cut Off Worker

Cutter

Cutter Operator

Diagrammer

Diagrammer and Seamer

Dinker

Duct Maker

Embroidery Operator

Fabric Cutter

Feller

Fine Hairer

Fine Unhairer

Finisher

Finishing Trimmer

Flesher

Flow Match Sofa Cutter

Fruit Cutter

Fur Cutter

Fur Plucker

Fur Trimmer

Glass Cutter

Glass Finisher

Glass Robot Operator

Gold Cutter

Hair Clipper, Power

Hairspring Cutter

Hand Binder Cutter

Hand Candy Cutter

Hand Cloth Cutter

Hand Coper

Hand Cutter

Hand Cutter Apprentice

Hand Endband Cutter

Hand Fabric Cutter

Hand Hose Cutter

Hand Leather Trimmer

Hand Mounter

Hand Outside Cutter

Hand Rounder

Hand Router Operator

Hand Slitter

Hand Splitter

Hand Tire Trimmer

Hand Trimmer

Hand Welt-Butter

Hide Cleaner

Hide Trimmer

Hot Knife Cutter

Hot Knife Foxing Cutter

Lacing Cutter

Lacing String Cutter

Lapper

Lay-Out Machine Operator

Leather Cutter

Level Vial Marker

Log Peeler

Machine Cutter

Machine Operator

Mat Cutter

Mesh Cutter

Mica Sizer

Mica Splitter

Mold Bunch Trimmer

Mosaic Worker

Offline Cutter

Opener

Operator

Outsider

Oval or Circular Glass Cutter

Packager

Pattern Cutter

Pearler

Pompom Maker

Portable Machine Cutter

Portable Router Operator

Portable Sawyer

Power Chisel Operator

Preform Plate Maker

Production Cloth Cutter

Remnants Cutter

Ribbon Cutter

Ripper

Rock Splitter

Rolled Glass Crosscutter

Rotary Shear Cutter

Rug Clipper

Rug Cutter

Sail Cutter

Sample Cutter

Saw Operator

Scarrer

Second Cutter

Shaper

Sheet Metal Pattern Cutter

Shirt Trimmer

Silk Screen Cutter

Skinner

Slitter

Slot Router

Spreader

Stock Parts Fabricator

Stock Preparer

Stonework Tracer

Stripper

Target Trimmer

Template Cutter

Thread Clipper

Thread Cutter

Thread Trimmer

Trimmer

Vegetable Trimmer

Veneer Sample Maker

Wet Machine Cutter

Wire Cutter

Wire Screen and Fabric Shearer and Trimmer

Wood Hacker

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Cutters and Trimmers, Hand

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