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Career Details :: Precision Pattern and Die Casters, Nonferrous Metals
Description
Cast metal patterns and dies, according to specifications, from a variety of nonferrous metals, such as aluminum or bronze.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Clamps metal and plywood strips around die or pattern to form mold.
- Operates foundry furnaces and ovens.
- Shapes mold to specified contours with sand, using trowel and related tools.
- Machines metal patterns to exact dimensions.
- Constructs wood patterns used to form sand molds for metal casts.
- Preheats dies or patterns, using blowtorch or other equipment, and applies parting compound.
- Operates hoist to position dies or patterns on foundry floor.
- Tilts melting pot or uses ladle to pour molten alloy, bronze, or other nonferrous metal into sand mold.
- Lowers metal jig into molten metal in prescribed manner to attach anchor bolts to punch.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Evaluating Information Against Standards
Important Skills
- Operation and Control
- Equipment Selection
- Product Inspection
- Information Organization
- Operation Monitoring
Frequent Work Context
- Indoors
- Consequence of Error
- Common Protective or Safety Attire
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Degree of Automation
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