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827A Rubber and Plastics Worker

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Overview

A Rubber and Plastics Worker fabricates, repairs, replaces, and modifies rubber and plastic equipment parts. This worker compounds and processes materials, operates mixing, heating, molding, pressing, and shaping machinery, and performs routine maintenance on ship machinery.

Core Skills

  • Rubber and plastic formulation and compounding
  • Mixing, heating, molding, and pressing machinery operation
  • Equipment part fabrication, repair, and modification
  • Routine maintenance of ship machinery

Civilian Career Paths

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Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Operating molding machinery and processing plastic into replacement or modified equipment parts transfers directly to the plastic-molding side of this occupation.

How to prepare: Seek hands-on practice setting up a production plastic-molding machine from a work order, including temperature, pressure, and cycle-time settings.

What the civilian work involves
  • Set up, operate, or tend metal or plastic molding, casting, or coremaking machines to mold or cast metal or thermoplastic parts or products.
  • Turn valves and dials of machines to regulate pressure, temperature, and speed and feed rates, and to set cycle times.
  • Measure and visually inspect products for surface and dimension defects to ensure conformance to specifications, using precision measuring instruments.

Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Compounding rubber and plastic and operating pressing and shaping machinery provides directly relevant experience for forming and pressing production work.

How to prepare: Target rubber or plastic forming and pressing openings, and practice checking finished parts against dimensional specifications with measuring instruments.

What the civilian work involves
  • Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, and temperatures, and amounts, dimensions, and flow of materials or ingredients.
  • Examine, measure, and weigh materials or products to verify conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as templates, micrometers, or scales.
  • Monitor machine operations and observe lights and gauges to detect malfunctions.

Maintenance Workers, Machinery

Routine ship-machinery maintenance and fabrication or repair of equipment parts provide a foundation for industrial machinery maintenance work.

How to prepare: Seek supervised practice following a production machine's maintenance procedures and documenting the completed work in a maintenance log.

What the civilian work involves
  • Record production, repair, and machine maintenance information.
  • Lubricate or apply adhesives or other materials to machines, machine parts, or other equipment according to specified procedures.
  • Install, replace, or change machine parts and attachments, according to production specifications.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Computerized maintenance management system software CMMS

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 827A

    [1] NEC entry "827A - Rubber and Plastics Worker"; cached text line 21671; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Rubber and plastic formulation and compounding, Mixing, heating, molding, and pressing machinery operation, Equipment part fabrication, repair, and modification, Routine maintenance of ship machinery, Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic (O*NET 51-4072.00), Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders (O*NET 51-9041.00), Maintenance Workers, Machinery (O*NET 49-9043.00)

  2. O*NET: Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic (O*NET 51-4072.00)

  3. O*NET: Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders (O*NET 51-9041.00)

  4. O*NET: Maintenance Workers, Machinery

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Maintenance Workers, Machinery (O*NET 49-9043.00)

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