CompGeo Metal Pourers and Casters, Basic Shapes Salary Survey Benchmark Job Description and Competencies - Manufacturing Occupation Group

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Manufacturing

Benchmark Title: Metal Pourers and Casters, Basic Shapes

Summary Job Description

Tasks

Operate hand-controlled mechanisms to pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds to produce castings or ingots.

Collect samples, or signal workers to sample metal for analysis.

Pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds and forms to produce ingots or other castings, using ladles or hand-controlled mechanisms.

Read temperature gauges and observe color changes; then adjust furnace flames, torches, or electrical heating units as necessary to melt metal to specifications.

Examine molds to ensure they are clean, smooth, and properly coated.

Position equipment such as ladles, grinding wheels, pouring nozzles, or crucibles, or signal other workers to position equipment.

Skim slag or remove excess metal from ingots or equipment, using hand tools, strainers, rakes, or burners; collect scrap for recycling.

Turn valves to circulate water through cores, or spray water on filled molds to cool and solidify metal.

Add metal to molds to compensate for shrinkage.

Pull levers to lift ladle stoppers and to allow molten steel to flow into ingot molds to specified heights.

Load specified amounts of metal and flux into furnaces or clay crucibles.

Remove solidified steel or slag from pouring nozzles, using long bars or oxygen burners.

Assemble and embed cores in casting frames, using hand tools and equipment.

Remove metal ingots or cores from molds, using hand tools, cranes, and chain hoists.

Transport metal ingots to storage areas, using forklifts.

Stencil identifying information on ingots and pigs, using special hand tools.

Repair and maintain metal forms and equipment, using hand tools, sledges, and bars.

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Manufacturing

Benchmark Title: Metal Pourers and Casters, Basic Shapes

Important Knowledge Competencies

Competency Description

Production and Processing

Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

Administration and Management

Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Manufacturing

Benchmark Title: Metal Pourers and Casters, Basic Shapes

Important Skill Competencies

Competency Description

Operation Monitoring

Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

Monitoring

Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Operation and Control

Controlling operations of equipment or systems.

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.

Coordination

Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

Reading Comprehension

Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

Speaking

Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Social Perceptiveness

Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Quality Control Analysis

Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.

Judgment and Decision Making

Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Manufacturing

Benchmark Title: Metal Pourers and Casters, Basic Shapes

Important Ability Competencies

Competency Description

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.

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.

Control Precision

The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

Oral Comprehension

The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Near Vision

The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

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.

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.

Oral Expression

The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

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.

Deductive Reasoning

The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Perceptual Speed

The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.

Selective Attention

The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

Reaction Time

The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.

Speech Recognition

The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Speech Clarity

The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Inductive Reasoning

The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

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).

Category Flexibility

The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

Static Strength

The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.

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.

Visual Color Discrimination

The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.

Time Sharing

The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).

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.

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.

Auditory Attention

The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.

Written Comprehension

The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Flexibility of Closure

The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.

Far Vision

The ability to see details at a distance.

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Manufacturing

Benchmark Title: Metal Pourers and Casters, Basic Shapes

Prerequisite Qualification Category

Education and Experience Level

Required Level of Education

High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate)

On-the-Job Training

Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month

On-Site or In-Plant Training

Up to and including 1 month

Related Work Experience

None

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Manufacturing

Benchmark Title: Metal Pourers and Casters, Basic Shapes

Alternate Job Title(s)

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General Foundry Worker

Header

Ingot Caster

Ingot Header

Iron Pourer

Ladle Car Operator

Ladle Filler

Ladle Operator

Ladle Pourer

Ladle Puller

Ladler

Lead Caster

Lead Pourer

Melter

Melter - Caster

Metal Handler

Mold Maker

Molten Iron Pourer

Pourer

Pourer Off

Steel Pourer

Third Steel Pourer

Tin Pourer

White Metal Caster

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Manufacturing

Benchmark Title: Metal Pourers and Casters, Basic Shapes

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