A professional who tends automatic equipment that conveys objects through series of cleaning, rinsing, and electrolytic plating solutions to plate objects with metallic coating. Respnsibilities include:

• Starts equipment and regulates flow of electricity through plating solution and immersion time of objects in solutions, according to specifications.
• Monitors automatic plating process to ensure conformance to standards.
• Adds water or other materials to maintain specified mixture and level of cleaning, rinsing, and plating solutions.
• Observes temperature gauges and adjusts controls to maintain specified temperatures of cleaning and rinsing solutions.
• Lubricates moving parts of plating conveyor.
• Cleans plating and cleaning tanks.
• May test plating solution, using hydrometer and litmus paper, or obtain random sample of plating solutions for laboratory analysis.
• May replace anodes and cathodes in plating equipment.
• May fasten objects onto hooks or racks, or place objects into containers or onto conveyor attached to plating equipment.
• May start and monitor computerized plating process.
• May manually immerse objects into plating or rinsing solutions.