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Career Details :: Molding and Casting Workers
Description
Perform a variety of duties such as mixing materials, assembling mold parts, filling molds, and stacking molds to mold and cast a wide range of products.
Experience
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful in these occupations, but usually is not needed. For example, a drywall installer might benefit from experience installing drywall, but an inexperienced person could still learn to be an installer with little difficulty.
Education
These occupations usually require a high school diploma and may require some vocational training or job-related course work. In some cases, an associate's or bachelor's degree could be needed.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees.
Tasks
- Installs and secures mold or mold parts together.
- Cleans, trims, smoothes, and polishes products or parts.
- Brushes or sprays surface of mold with parting agent or inserts paper to ensure smoothness and prevent sticking or seepage.
- Opens mold and removes finished products.
- Inspects and tests parts or products for defects and to verify accuracy and adherence to standards.
- Aligns and assembles parts to produce completed product, using gauges and hand tools.
- Molds parts or products using vibrator, handpress, or casting equipment and taps or tilts mold to ensure uniformity.
- Cleans and lubricates mold and mold parts.
- Operates and adjusts controls of heating equipment to melt material or to cure, dry, or bake filled molds according to specifications.
- Fastens metal inserts, such as drainage tubes, bolts, or electrical connections, to product, using hand tools and power tools.
- Fills mold with mixed material or applies material to mold to specified thickness.
- Reads work order or examines part to determine part or section of product to be produced.
- Engraves or stamps identifying symbols, letters, or numbers on product.
- Measures and cuts product to specified dimensions, using measuring and cutting instruments.
- Selects size and type of mold according to instructions.
- Assembles, inserts, and adjusts wires, tubes, cores, fittings, rods, or patterns into mold, using hand tools and depth gauge.
- Removes excess material and levels and smoothes wet mold mixture.
- Loads or stacks filled molds in oven, drier, or curing box, or on storage racks or carts.
- Measures ingredients and mixes molding or casting material or sealing compound to prescribed consistency, according to formula.
Related Careers
- Electrolytic Plating and Coating Machine Setters and Set-Up Operators, Metal and Plastic
- Embossing Machine Set-Up Operators
- Mold Makers, Hand
- Packers and Packagers, Hand
- Precision Etchers and Engravers, Hand or Machine
- Precision Mold and Pattern Casters, except Nonferrous Metals
- Tool and Die Makers
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Indoors
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Consequence of Error
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