NorthStar

Occupations/51-9023.00

Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Set up, operate, or tend machines to mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.

High school

Usually a high school diploma, plus some experience or short training.

AI automation risk

70%

Higher automation risk

Human characteristics

37%

Fewer uniquely human demands

Task orientation

80%

Higher automation risk

A day in this job

  • Mostly routine

    Observe production or monitor equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.

  • Task

    Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to requirements.

  • Task

    Read work orders to determine production specifications or information.

The tasks we can read here lean routine. That sits next to the AI risk rank — it is not a forecast that the job disappears.

Core tasks

  1. 01Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to requirements.
  2. 02Read work orders to determine production specifications or information.
  3. 03Observe production or monitor equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.
  4. 04Mix or blend ingredients by starting machines and mixing for specified times.
  5. 05Stop mixing or blending machines when specified product qualities are obtained and open valves and start pumps to transfer mixtures.
  6. 06Compound or process ingredients or dyes, according to formulas.

Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)

  • Repeating same tasks4.24
  • Degree of automation2.53
  • Time sitting1.63
  • Originality (ability)2.00
  • Conflict situations2.77
  • Hands-on objects/tools4.50
  • Outdoors / weather2.49
  • Disease exposure1.00
  • Decision freedom3.65

Top abilities

  • Near Vision3.38
  • Manual Dexterity3.25
  • Arm-Hand Steadiness3.25
  • Written Comprehension3.12
  • Selective Attention3.12
  • Reaction Time3.12
  • Problem Sensitivity3.12
  • Perceptual Speed3.12

Essential skills

  • Reading Comprehension3.12
  • Active Listening2.88
  • Writing2.75
  • Speaking3.00
  • Mathematics2.38
  • Science1.88
  • Critical Thinking3.12
  • Active Learning2.75
  • Learning Strategies2.62
  • Monitoring3.12

CIP matches

99.9999NO MATCH

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