A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cleaning, racking, plating, and polishing of metal or plastic objects. Respnsibilities include:

• Selects equipment, such as hooks, plating barrels or tanks, and racks, according to quantity, size, and type of objects to be plated.
• Verifies types of plating metals and solutions, length of immersion period, and amount of electric current flowing through solutions, following plating specifications.
• Assigns tasks to workers and processes paperwork, such as timecards and supply, production and personnel reports.
• Resolves personnel problems and expedites production bottlenecks to meet deadlines and production schedules.
• Inspects plated surfaces of objects to detect defects, such as rough spots, thin plating, and unpolished areas.
• Collects and labels samples of plating solutions for laboratory analysis.
• Examines equipment, such as plating tanks, polishers, and racks, and notifies maintenance department of needed repairs.
• May analyze plating solutions to verify conformance to specifications, performing variety of tests, such as specific gravity and titration tests.
• May measure thickness of plating on metal objects, using micrometer, to verify conformance to specifications.
• May be designated according to specific process supervised as Supervisor, Anodizing (electroplating); Supervisor, Electrolytic Tinning (nonfer.
• metal).
• Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.