Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan own work requirements.
- Identify equipment and processes used for production process and upstream and downstream operations from production plan or request.
- Identify materials required including additives.
- Recognise hazards and take appropriate action.
- Identify and check emergency stops, guards and controls.
- Identify requirements for materials, quality, production and equipment checks.
- Identify materials, waste management and housekeeping needs.
- Check fibre optic preform equipment setup.
- Determine equipment requirements.
- Set process to specifications as required.
- Check materials are correct.
- Check speed, time, tension and wind-off speed to requirements.
- Check fibre optic winding equipment settings and adjustments, including tensions and spool loading, to specifications.
- Discard, or make adjustments to the process for, non-conforming materials.
- Set up date, batch and materials markings to specifications, as required.
- Complete other pre-start checks to procedures.
- Operate and make adjustments to fibre optic preform equipment to procedures.
- Check and load materials using correct manual handling methods.
- Start up equipment and make adjustments to reach required settings.
- Monitor controls/displays/terminals for production/process data.
- Monitor product/process quality.
- Maintain continuity of process.
- Make adjustments to remedy faults and nonconformity to standard as required.
- Collect and reprocess/discard scrap/trim and other materials.
- Complete required workplace documentation/records.
- Clean, adjust and lubricate equipment as required.
- Pause or stop equipment in an emergency, as required.
- Shut down equipment to procedures.
- Anticipate and solve problems.
- Recognise a problem or a potential problem.
- Determine problems needing priority action.
- Refer problems outside area of responsibility to appropriate person, with possible causes.
- Seek information and assistance as required to solve problems.
- Solve problems within area of responsibility.
- Follow through items initiated until final resolution has occurred.