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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Set up, operate, or tend metal or plastic molding, casting, or coremaking machines to mold or cast metal or thermoplastic parts or products. | Observe continuous operation of automatic machines to ensure that products meet specifications and to detect jams or malfunctions, making adjustments as necessary. | |||
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Measure and visually inspect products for surface and dimension defects in order to ensure conformance to specifications, using precision measuring instruments. | ||||
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Set up, operate, or tend metal or plastic molding, casting, or coremaking machines to mold or cast metal or thermoplastic parts or products. | ||||
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Position and secure workpieces on machines, and start feeding mechanisms. | ||||
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Turn valves and dials of machines to regulate pressure, temperature, and speed and feed rates, and to set cycle times. | ||||
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Remove finished or cured products from dies or molds, using hand tools, air hoses and other equipment; stamp identifying information on products when necessary. | ||||
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Skim or pour dross, slag, or impurities from molten metal, using ladles, rakes, hoes, spatulas, or spoons. | ||||
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Trim excess material from parts, using knives, and grind scrap plastic into powder for reuse. | ||||
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Cool products after processing to prevent distortion. | ||||
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Install dies onto machines or presses, then coat dies with parting agents, according to work order specifications. | ||||
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Mix and measure compounds, or weigh premixed compounds; then dump them into machine tubs, cavities, or molds. | ||||
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Observe meters and gauges to verify and record temperatures, pressures, and press-cycle times. | ||||
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Spray, smoke, or coat molds with compounds to lubricate or insulate molds, using acetylene torches or sprayers. | ||||
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Read specifications, blueprints, and work orders to determine setups, temperatures, and time settings required to mold, form, or cast plastic materials, as well as to plan production sequences. | ||||
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Adjust equipment and workpiece holding fixtures, such as mold frames, tubs, and cutting tables, to ensure proper functioning. | ||||
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Remove parts such as dies from machines after production runs are finished. | ||||
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Inventory and record quantities of materials and finished products; requisition additional supplies as necessary. | ||||
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Pour or load metal or sand into melting pots, furnaces, molds, or hoppers, using shovels, ladles, or machines. | ||||
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Unload finished products from conveyor belts, pack them in containers, and place containers in warehouses. | ||||
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Connect water hoses to cooling systems of dies, using hand tools. | ||||
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Preheat tools, dies, plastic materials, or patterns, using blowtorches or other equipment. | ||||
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Operate hoists to position dies or patterns on foundry floors. | ||||
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Smooth and clean inner surfaces of molds, using brushes, scrapers, air hoses, or grinding wheels, and fill imperfections with refractory material. | ||||
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Obtain and move specified patterns to work stations, manually or using hoists, and secure patterns to machines, using wrenches. | ||||
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Perform maintenance work such as cleaning and oiling machines. | ||||
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Repair or replace damaged molds, pipes, belts, chains, or other equipment, using hand tools, hand-powered presses, or jib cranes. | ||||
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Maintain inventories of materials. | ||||
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Select coolants and lubricants, and start their flow. | ||||
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Assemble shell halves, patterns, and foundry flasks, and reinforce core boxes, using glue, clamps, wire, bolts, rams, or machines. | ||||
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Pull level and toggle latches to fill molds, to regulate tension on sheeting, and to release mold covers. | ||||
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Select and install blades, tools, or other attachments for each operation. | ||||
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Shape molds to specified contours, using sand, and trowels and related tools. | ||||
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Clamp metal and plywood strips around dies or patterns to form molds. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Molding/Coremaking/Casting Mach Strs Ops Tndrs Metal Plastic
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
- Knowledges
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- Tools and Technology
- Education and Experience
- Alternate Job Titles
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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. | |||
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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. | |||
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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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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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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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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Equipment Maintenance | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. | |||
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Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. | |||
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Repairing | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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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. | |||
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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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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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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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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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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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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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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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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. | |||
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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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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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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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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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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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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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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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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. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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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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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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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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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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Gross Body Coordination | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | |||
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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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Hearing Sensitivity | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Aluminum Molder | |||
Aluminum Molding Machine Operator | |||
Automatic Casting Machine Operator | |||
Babbitt Spinner | |||
Babbitter | |||
Bench Molder | |||
Bender Machine Operator | |||
Bit Bender | |||
Blow Mold Operator | |||
Blow Molding Machine Tender | |||
Bonding Machine Operator | |||
Brake Drum Molder | |||
Brass Molder | |||
Bullet Casting Operator | |||
Bullet-Slug Casting Machine Operator | |||
Cake-Press Operator | |||
Caster | |||
Caster Operator | |||
Casting Machine Operator | |||
Casting Machine Set-Up Operator | |||
Casting Molder | |||
Casting Operator | |||
Casting Room Operator | |||
Casting Wheel Operator | |||
Centrifugal Casting Machine Operator | |||
Centrifugal Casting Machine Tender | |||
Composite Technician | |||
Compression Molding Machine Operator | |||
Compression Molding Machine Setter | |||
Compression Molding Machine Tender | |||
Contact Lens Molder | |||
Core Blower | |||
Core Carrier | |||
Core Filer | |||
Core Fitter | |||
Core Machine Operator | |||
Core Mounter | |||
Core Placer | |||
Coremaking Machine Setter | |||
Corrugator | |||
Corrugator Operator | |||
Cup Fabricating Machine Operator | |||
Cup Operator | |||
Diamond Blender | |||
Die Cast Technician | |||
Die Caster | |||
Die Casting Machine Operator | |||
Die Casting Machine Setter | |||
Die Setter | |||
Diecast Machine Operator | |||
Direct Chill Casting Operator (DC Casting Operator) | |||
Eight Arm Operator | |||
Flask Fitter | |||
Flask Maker | |||
Grey Iron Molder | |||
Hand Bender | |||
Hopper Operator | |||
Hot Molder | |||
Injection Molding Machine Operator | |||
Injection Molding Machine Setter | |||
Injection Molding Machine Tender | |||
Injection Press Operator | |||
Ironmolder | |||
Lead Die Molder | |||
Lead Ingot Molder | |||
Machine Coremaker | |||
Machine Molder | |||
Machine Operator | |||
Manufacturing Assistant | |||
Manufacturing Associate | |||
Manufacturing Operator | |||
Mat Maker | |||
Mat Roller | |||
Metal Base Blocker | |||
Metal Caster | |||
Metal Molder | |||
Mogul Operator | |||
Mold Machine Operator | |||
Mold Maker | |||
Mold Setter | |||
Molder | |||
Molding Machine Operator | |||
Molding Machine Setter | |||
Molding Technician | |||
Musical Instrument Maker | |||
Nonferrous Metal Precision Pattern and Die Caster | |||
Operator | |||
Pattern Molder | |||
Pig Machine Operator | |||
Pilling Machine Operator | |||
Pipe Coremaker | |||
Pipe Covering Molder | |||
Plastic Cup Fabricating Machine Operator | |||
Plastic Duplicator | |||
Plastic Joint Maker | |||
Plastic Molder | |||
Plastic Process Technician | |||
Plate Corrector | |||
Plate Molder | |||
Polymerization Oven Operator | |||
Polymerization Oven Tender | |||
Preform Machine Operator | |||
Press Operator | |||
Presser | |||
Process Engineer | |||
Process Technician | |||
Production Technician | |||
Punch Molder | |||
Reclamation Kettle Tender | |||
Remelter | |||
Rotor Casting Machine Operator | |||
Rotor Casting Machine Setup Operator | |||
Sand Slinger | |||
Sand Slinger Operator | |||
Set-Up Person | |||
Shell Mold Bonding Machine Operator | |||
Shell Molder | |||
Shell Molding Roller Blast Operator | |||
Shot Dropper | |||
Spout Worker | |||
Steel Molder | |||
Thermoplastic Technician | |||
Turning and Beading Machine Operator | |||
Typecasting Machine Operator | |||
Vacuum Caster | |||
Vacuum Plastic Forming Machine Operator | |||
Vanstone Machine Operator | |||
Wet End Operator | |||
Wheel Molder | |||
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