铸造工人

Mouldmakers and coremakers

Make and repair sand moulds using patterns, moulding boxes, sand and hand tools following bench, floor or pit moulding methods

Operate ovens to dry moulds

Make cores for use inside moulds to form holes or void spaces in castings using core boxes, sand, hammer and wire or other reinforcing material

Coat cores with protective materials and bake cores in oven

Set up, adjust and operate various mouldmaking and coremaking machines to make sand and ceramics moulds and cores

May pour molten metal into moulds to produce metal castings.

Metal casters

Set up and operate various casting machines to cast ferrous and non-ferrous metal products; hand ladle and pour molten metal into moulds to produce castings.

Foundry furnace operators

Operate furnaces used to melt metals for moulding and casting.

Completion of secondary school is required.

Several weeks of on-the-job training are required.

There is some mobility between workers in this unit group.

Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.

Continuous casting operator - primary metal processing (See 93100 Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing)

Foundry labourer (See 95100 Labourers in mineral and metal processing)

Foundry supervisor (See 92010 Supervisors, mineral and metal processing)

Furnace operator - primary metal and mineral products processing (See 93100 Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing)