Foundry worker

• Education:


• Expérience:

Education

• No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

• Noisy
• Hot

Tasks

• Carefully track the temperature gauges and colour, heating units, furnace flames, etc. to melt metal as per requirements
• Make sand moulds using patterns, moulding boxes, sand and hand tools following bench, floor or pit moulding methods
• Pour molten metal into moulds to produce metal castings
• Make cores for use in moulds to form holes or void spaces in castings
• Set up, adjust and operate various casting machines
• Set up and operate casting machines to cast ferrous or non ferrous metal products
• Hand ladle molten metal into moulds to produce castings
• Operate furnaces used to melt metals for moulding and casting

Equipment and machinery experience

• Lifting device

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