Foundry Operator

POSITION SUMMARY

The Foundry Operator assists other workers in foundry concerned with melting metal, pouring metal into molds, removing castings from molds, and dressing castings by performing the following duties.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Moves sand, castings, flasks, or other materials about foundry.

• Assembles flasks.

• Waters and mixes sand, shovels sand into flask, and compacts sand into flasks.

• Sprays binder on surface of sand molds and dries surface with blowtorch.

• Fits together, clamps, and unclamps cope and drag on production line.

• Weighs out specified amounts of materials for furnace charge and loads charge into melting furnace.

• Skims slag from surface of molten metal.

• Carries or pushes ladles of molten metal on monorail and pours metal into molds.

• Installs and removes steel clamps used to hold steel flasks together.

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