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O*NET detailed work activityClean workpieces or finished products
Stays humanHands-on work
21 jobs28 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Clean workpieces, finished products, or other objects, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 28 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Clean finished lenses and eyeglasses, using cloths and solvents.
- Clean and polish metal items and jewelry pieces, using jewelers' tools, polishing wheels, and chemical baths.
- Check for and remove moisture or contamination in damaged areas and keep areas dry until repairs are complete.
- Clean semiconductor wafers using cleaning equipment, such as chemical baths, automatic wafer cleaners, or blow-off wands.
- Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
- Clean and lubricate timepiece parts and assemblies, using solvents, buff sticks, and oil.
- Rinse coated objects in cleansing liquids and dry them with cloths, centrifugal driers, or by tumbling in sawdust-filled barrels.
- Clean parts, using cleaning solutions, air hoses, and cloths.
- Clean aircraft structures, parts, or components, using aqueous, semi-aqueous, aliphatic hydrocarbon, or organic solvent cleaning products or techniques to reduce carbon or other harmful emissions.
- Demagnetize mechanisms, using demagnetizing machines.
- Clean, finish, and lubricate molds and mold parts.
- Clean and finish patterns or templates, using emery cloths, files, scrapers, and power grinders.
- Clean and polish engraved areas.
- Clean surfaces of workpieces in preparation for coating, using cleaning fluids, solvents, brushes, scrapers, steam, sandpaper, or cloth.
- Clean and paint completed tires.
- Remove excess solvent, using cloths soaked in paint thinner.
- Clean, oil, or coat system components, as necessary, before assembly or attachment.
- Rinse, drain, or wipe coated workpieces to remove excess coating material or to facilitate setting of finish coats on workpieces.
- Wash surfaces to prepare them for finish application.
- Clean and lubricate parts and subassemblies, using grease paddles or oilcans.
- Clean workpieces, using wire brushes.
- Neutralize workpieces to remove acid, wax, or enamel, using water, solvents, brushes, or specialized machines.
- Operate sandblasting equipment to roughen and clean surfaces of workpieces.
- Wash stones, using water hoses.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Grind, sand, clean, or polish objects or parts to correct defects or to prepare surfaces for further finishing, using hand tools and power tools.
- Clean and maintain equipment, including replacing etching and rinsing solutions and cleaning bath containers and work area.
- Wash work areas, machines, equipment, vehicles, or products.
- Clean, treat, buff, or polish finished items, using grinders, brushes, chisels, and cleaning solutions and polishing materials.