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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Make or form wax or sand cores or molds used in the production of metal castings in foundries. | Clean and smooth molds, cores, and core boxes, and repair surface imperfections. | |||
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Move and position workpieces such as mold sections, patterns, and bottom boards, using cranes, or signal others to move workpieces. | ||||
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Sprinkle or spray parting agents onto patterns and mold sections to facilitate removal of patterns from molds. | ||||
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Position patterns inside mold sections and clamp sections together. | ||||
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Position cores into lower sections of molds, and reassemble molds for pouring. | ||||
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Sift and pack sand into mold sections, core boxes, and pattern contours, using hand or pneumatic ramming tools. | ||||
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Tend machines that bond cope and drag together to form completed shell molds. | ||||
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Cut spouts, runner holes, and sprue holes into molds. | ||||
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Lift upper mold sections from lower sections and remove molded patterns. | ||||
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Form and assemble slab cores around patterns and position wire in mold sections to reinforce molds, using hand tools and glue. | ||||
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Pour molten metal into molds, manually or using crane ladles. | ||||
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Rotate sweep boards around spindles in order to make symmetrical molds for convex impressions. | ||||
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Operate ovens or furnaces to bake cores or to melt, skim, and flux metal. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Foundry Mold and Coremakers, Precision
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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- Education and Experience
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Engineering and Technology | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |||
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Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Dynamic Strength | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Related Work Experience | None | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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Required Level of Education | Less than a High School Diploma | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Airset Caster | |||
Airset Molder | |||
Core Baker | |||
Core Drier | |||
Core Machine Operator | |||
Core Maker | |||
Core Oven Tender | |||
Core Paster | |||
Core Piler | |||
Core Setter | |||
Core Stacker | |||
Core Sticker | |||
Core Stripper | |||
Coremaker Apprentice | |||
Dipper | |||
Dry Molder | |||
Dry Sand Molder | |||
Founder | |||
Foundry Finisher | |||
Foundry Mold Assembly and Shake-Out Worker | |||
Foundry Molder | |||
Foundry Tender | |||
Foundry Worker | |||
Golf Club Head Former | |||
Green Sand Molder | |||
Hand Coremaker | |||
Hand Former | |||
Hand Spring Former | |||
Journeyman Molder | |||
Mold Capper | |||
Mold Closer | |||
Mold Finisher | |||
Mold Maker | |||
Molder | |||
Molder Apprentice | |||
No Bake Molder | |||
Pattern Molder | |||
Roll Hand | |||
Sand Cutter | |||
Sand Cutter Operator | |||
Sand Molder | |||
Shell Core Operator | |||
Shell Mold Operator | |||
Sweep Molder | |||
Wax Pattern Coater | |||
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