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O*NET detailed work activitySmooth metal surfaces or edges
Stays humanHands-on work
15 jobs18 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 Smooth surfaces of objects or equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 18 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Clean and smooth molds, cores, and core boxes, and repair surface imperfections.
- Remove rough spots and smooth surfaces to fit, trim, or clean parts, using hand tools or power tools.
- Grind, file, and sand parts to finished dimensions.
- File, grind, shim, and adjust different parts to properly fit them together.
- Remove burrs, sharp edges, rust, or scale from workpieces, using files, hand grinders, wire brushes, or power tools.
- Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces.
- File or finish surfaces of workpieces, using prescribed hand tools.
- Smooth workpiece edges and fix taps, tubes, and valves.
- Smooth surfaces of molds, using scraping tools or sandpaper.
- Fill small dents or scratches with body fillers and smooth surfaces to prepare for painting.
- Grind out burrs or sharp edges, using portable grinders, speed lathes, or polishing jacks.
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.
- Smooth soldered joints and rough spots, using hand files and emery paper, and polish smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire.
- Cut and file pieces of jewelry such as rings, brooches, bracelets, and lockets.
- Smooth and polish flat and contoured surfaces of parts or tools, using scrapers, abrasive stones, files, emery cloths, or power grinders.
- Clean and finish patterns or templates, using emery cloths, files, scrapers, and power grinders.
- Smooth and clean inner surfaces of molds, using brushes, scrapers, air hoses, or grinding wheels, and fill imperfections with refractory material.
- Remove high spots and cut bevels, using hand files, portable grinders, and cutting torches.