Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
Tasks Include:
- Inspect, weigh, and measure products to verify conformance to specifications, using instruments such as micrometers, calipers, magnifiers, or rulers.
- Record manufacturing information, such as quantities, sizes, or types of goods produced.
- Heat glass to pliable stage, using gas flames or ovens and rotating glass to heat it uniformly.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™; US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Projections Quick View:
Virginia: +26.0%
National: +19.1%
Education
Less than a High School Diploma
Job Zone:
Two: Some Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Moderately High ($36,000 - $49,999)
Median Earnings:
National
$39,590.00
State
$38,080.00
Regional
Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
Description
Career Cluster: | Manufacturing |
Shape molten glass according to patterns.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
Education
Required Level of Education
- Less than a High School Diploma = 43.24%
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 34.36%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 19.90%
- Some College Courses = 1.66%
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 0.85%
Related Work Experience
- Over 10 years = 30.07%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 22.42%
- None = 21.46%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 14.66%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 4.81%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 3.79%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 1.95%
- Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years = 0.84%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 20.77%
- None = 19.30%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 18.75%
- Over 10 years = 15.77%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 14.57%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 2.96%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 2.77%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 2.75%
- Up to and including 1 month = 2.37%
On-the-Job Training
- None or short demonstration = 20.86%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 17.26%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 16.34%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 16.25%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 15.73%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 6.27%
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 4.30%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 1.88%
- Over 10 years = 1.11%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Inspect, weigh, and measure products to verify conformance to specifications, using instruments such as micrometers, calipers, magnifiers, or rulers.
- Record manufacturing information, such as quantities, sizes, or types of goods produced.
- Heat glass to pliable stage, using gas flames or ovens and rotating glass to heat it uniformly.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Blow tubing into specified shapes to prevent glass from collapsing, using compressed air or own breath, or blow and rotate gathers in molds or on boards to obtain final shapes.
- Set up and adjust machine press stroke lengths and pressures and regulate oven temperatures, according to glass types to be processed.
- Shape, bend, or join sections of glass, using paddles, pressing and flattening hand tools, or cork.
- Develop sketches of glass products into blueprint specifications, applying knowledge of glass technology and glass blowing.
- Determine types and quantities of glass required to fabricate products.
- Place rubber hoses on ends of tubing and charge tubing with gas.
- Superimpose bent tubing on asbestos patterns to ensure accuracy.
- Place electrodes in tube ends and heat them with glass burners to fuse them into place.
- Strike necks of finished articles to separate articles from blowpipes.
- Spray or swab molds with oil solutions to prevent adhesion of glass.
- Cut lengths of tubing to specified sizes, using files or cutting wheels.
- Place glass into dies or molds of presses and control presses to form products, such as glassware components or optical blanks.
- Design and create glass objects, using blowpipes and artisans' hand tools and equipment.
- Repair broken scrolls by replacing them with new sections of tubing.
- Operate and maintain finishing machines to grind, drill, sand, bevel, decorate, wash, or polish glass or glass products.
- Operate electric kilns that heat and mold glass sheets to the shape and curve of metal jigs.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Air compressors
- Vacuum ovens (Annealing ovens)
- Milling cutters (Cutting wheels)
- Calipers (Dial calipers)
- Micrometers (Digital micrometers)
- Workshop presses (Drill presses)
- Kilns for firing ceramics (Electric kilns)
- Lathes (Engine lathes)
- Blow pipes (Glass blowing pipes)
- Glass cutters (Glass knives)
- Lathes (Glass lathes)
- Power saws (Glass saws)
- Tongs (Glass tongs)
- Grinding or polishing machines (Grinders)
- Files (Hand files)
- Magnifiers (Hand held magnifiers)
- Hold down clamps (Holding clamps)
- Induction heaters
- Grinders (Lapping wheels)
- Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
- Gas burners (Meeker burners)
- Personal computers
- Polariscopes
- Power buffers (Polishing wheels)
- Rulers (Precision rulers)
- Blow torches (Propane torches)
- Respirators (Protective respirators)
- Safety glasses
- Protective gloves (Safety gloves)
- Goggles (Safety goggles)
- Pneumatic sanding machines (Sandblasters)
- Shears
- Welders (Spot welders)
- Tweezers
- Vacuum ovens
- Vacuum pumps
Technologies Include:
- Accounting software
- Billing software
- Electronic mail software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Inventory management software
- Inventory control software
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
70.50 | Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. |
68.00 | Design | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. |
55.50 | Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
53.75 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
53.75 | Engineering and Technology | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. |
52.25 | Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
51.00 | English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
49.75 | Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Skills
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
59.50 | Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
59.50 | Operations Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
59.50 | Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
56.25 | Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
50.00 | Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
50.00 | Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
50.00 | Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
72.00 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
72.00 | Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
68.75 | Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
68.75 | Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. |
65.50 | Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
65.50 | Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. |
65.50 | Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. |
62.50 | Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. |
62.50 | Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
62.50 | Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
59.50 | Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. |
59.50 | Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
50.00 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
50.00 | Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
50.00 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
50.00 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
50.00 | Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
84.75 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
76.75 | Controlling Machines and Processes | Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |
63.50 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
62.25 | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings | Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
62.00 | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials | Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
60.75 | Handling and Moving Objects | Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
56.25 | Performing General Physical Activities | Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
53.00 | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events | Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
51.75 | Making Decisions and Solving Problems | Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
49.75 | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards | Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
49.75 | Working with Computers | Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
79.75 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
72.25 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
72.00 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
67.75 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
67.25 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
66.25 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
65.25 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
63.25 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
63.00 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
61.50 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
61.50 | Analytical Thinking | Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
60.00 | Leadership | Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
59.75 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
58.00 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
54.00 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
51.75 | Social Orientation | Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
72.17 | Relationships | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service. |
72.17 | Support | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
55.50 | Independence | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
99.60 | Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings | How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings? |
97.60 | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets | How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? |
89.20 | Exposed to Contaminants | How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? |
87.60 | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable | How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? |
87.20 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
84.40 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
84.20 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
81.80 | Very Hot or Cold Temperatures | How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures? |
81.00 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
80.00 | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls | How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
77.00 | Exposed to Hazardous Equipment | How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment? |
76.80 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
76.60 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
76.60 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
76.00 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
72.00 | Spend Time Standing | How much does this job require standing? |
72.00 | Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in non-controlled environmental conditions (e.g., warehouse without heat)? |
71.40 | Consequence of Error | How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? |
70.20 | Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment | How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.) |
70.00 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
67.40 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
65.40 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
62.40 | Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting | How often does this job require working in extremely bright or inadequate lighting conditions? |
62.00 | Letters and Memos | How often does the job require written letters and memos? |
60.80 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
60.80 | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety | How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? |
60.20 | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? |
55.40 | Exposed to Hazardous Conditions | How often does this job require exposure to hazardous conditions? |
53.80 | Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions | How often does this job require working in cramped work spaces that requires getting into awkward positions? |
52.60 | Spend Time Walking and Running | How much does this job require walking and running? |
52.00 | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? |
50.20 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
49.80 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
- Examples
- These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include orderlies, counter and rental clerks, customer service representatives, security guards, upholsterers, tellers, and dental laboratory technicians.
- Education
- These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $30,040.00 | $39,590.00 | $47,200.00 |
Virginia | $28,570.00 | $38,080.00 | $44,450.00 |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Bay Consortium | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | $31,969.29 | $41,835.10 | $47,970.09 |
Central VA/Region2000 | $28,461.50 | $32,958.27 | $39,289.18 |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Hampton Roads | $28,435.44 | $38,192.87 | $41,868.44 |
New River/Mt. Rogers | $35,107.13 | $39,683.11 | $45,071.94 |
Northern Virginia | $33,816.98 | $41,155.63 | $49,283.17 |
Piedmont Workforce | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | $31,468.03 | $45,389.79 | $46,824.79 |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | $34,221.32 | $39,016.15 | $44,350.79 |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 41,300 | 49,200 | +19.1% |
Virginia | 607 | 765 | +26.0% |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Bay Consortium | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Central VA/Region2000 | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Hampton Roads | No Data | No Data | No Data |
New River/Mt. Rogers | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Northern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Piedmont Workforce | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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- Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
- Semiconductor Processing Technicians
- Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Sewers, Hand
- Sewing Machine Operators
- Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers
- Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders
- Slaughterers and Meat Packers
- Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing
- Team Assemblers
- Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders
- Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other
- Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters
- Tire Builders
- Tool and Die Makers
- Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
- Upholsterers
- Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
- Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Woodworkers, All Other
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
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Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
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Proficiency Ratings
These proficiencies are scored on a scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being not
important to the job and 5 being extremely important to the job.
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Titles
- Artificial Glass Eye Maker
- Bottle Blower
- Finisher
- Forming Machine Operator
- Gaffer
- Glass Bender
- Glass Block Bender
- Glass Blower
- Glass Blower Apprentice
- Glass Blowing Lathe Operator
- Glass Forming Press Operator
- Glass Lathe Operator
- Glass Presser
- Glass Tube Bender
- Glass Worker
- Glassware Finisher
- Laboratory Apparatus Glass Blower
- Machine Operator
- Molder
- Neon Glass Bender
- Neon Glass Blower
- Neon Molder
- Neon Pumper
- Neon Tube Bender
- Press Operator
- Presser
- Relief Operator
- Scientific Glass Blower
- Ware Finisher
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Related Schools
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