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This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Manual mouldmakers

• • 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; may pour molten metal into moulds to produce metal castings.

• Manual coremakers

• • 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.

• Machine mouldmakers and coremakers

• • Set up, adjust and operate various mouldmaking and coremaking machines to make sand and ceramics moulds and cores.

• 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.

• Completion of secondary school may be required.
• Up to two years of on-the-job training are required for manual mouldmakers; several months of on-the-job training are required for other workers in this unit group.

• Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
• There is some mobility between workers in this unit group.

• Foundry labourers (in 9611 Labourers in mineral and metal processing)
• Furnace operators who convert and refine primary metals, and operators of continuous casting processes (in 9231 Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing)
• Supervisors of foundry workers (in 9211 Supervisors, mineral and metal processing)