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This group performs some or all of the following duties:

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.

• Completion of secondary school is required.
• Several weeks of on-the-job training are required.

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

• Foundry labourer (in 95100 Labourers in mineral and metal processing)
• Foundry supervisor (in 92010 Supervisors, mineral and metal processing)
• Furnace operator - primary metal and mineral products processing; continuous casting operator - primary metal processing (in 93100 Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing)