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Plastics Technicians

Experience, Skills, and Personality Traits

Aspiring technicians can obtain experience through college training, apprenticeships, and internships and other cooperative education experiences.

Plastics technicians should have good communications skills since they must interact with a variety of coworkers including various engineers, chemists, supervisors, designers, estimators, and other technicians. You must be able to follow both oral and written instructions in order to be able to create a product according to precise specifications and demands. Strong mathematical skills are essential for the analysis, design, and troubleshooting aspects of their work. Other important traits include good organizational and time-management skills.

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