Job description Wax-pattern Mouldmaker - Foundry in the Southwest Region

Find out what work is like for a wax-pattern mouldmaker - foundry in Canada. This work description is applicable to all Foundry workers (NOC 94101).

Foundry workers

Description

Foundry workers make foundry moulds and cores by hand or machine, cast molten metal, and operate furnaces in the foundry industry. They are employed by metal foundries and foundry departments of metal products manufacturing companies.

Job duties

Here are some of the main activities and tasks that Foundry workers have to perform, and some of the physical demands they involve:

  • 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.

Physical demands

Physical demands are the physical activities that the job requires the worker to do. Physical demands are selected according to the likeliness that workers will have to perform them for at least half of the time they spend at work.

Work environment

The work environment refers to the physical setting in which people work. The characteristics and conditions of the work environment are selected according to the likeliness that workers will be exposed to them at least once a week.

Physical proximity from others

Physical proximity from others refers to the physical distance between individuals in the workplace. The likeliness that the job requires to perform tasks while being physically close to other people is rated on a scale with 3 levels: "Somewhat close", "Close" and "Very close".

Related job titles

Here are some other related job titles that are found in the same occupational category (NOC 94101), and a list of similar occupations:

  • bench moulder - foundry
  • casting machine operator - foundry
  • foundry worker
  • furnace operator - foundry
  • manual moulder
  • melter - foundry
  • metal caster - foundry
  • pit moulder
  • sand coremaker
  • sand moulder

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Sources Occupational and Skills Information System & National Occupational Classification

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