National Occupation Code (NOC): 94101

Foundry workers make foundry moulds and cores by hand or machine, cast molten metal, and operate furnaces in the foundry industry. They are employed by metal foundries and foundry departments of metal products manufacturing companies.

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Job Duties for Foundry workers

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.

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• Core Machine Operator - Foundry
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• Coremaking Machine Operator - Foundry
• Core-sand-mixer - Foundry
• Cupola Furnace Operator - Foundry
• Custom Moulder - Foundry
• Die-casting Machine Operator
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• Die-casting Machine Set-up Man/woman - Foundry
• Die-casting Machine Tender - Foundry
• Dry-sand Moulder - Foundry
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• Floor Moulder - Foundry
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• Hand Mouldmaker - Foundry
• Hand Sand-core Maker - Foundry
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• Induction Furnace Operator - Foundry
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• Job Moulder - Foundry
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• Mould Caster - Foundry
• Mould Setter - Foundry
• Moulding And Coremaking Machine Setter - Foundry
• Moulding Sand Mixer - Foundry
• Ornamental Caster - Foundry
• Pattern Gater
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• Pellet Maker - Foundry
• Permanent Mould Operator - Foundry
• Pipe Coremaker - Foundry
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• Sand Control Operator - Foundry
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• Sand Floor Moulder - Foundry
• Sand Mill Operator - Foundry
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• Sand System Operator - Foundry
• Sand-slinger Operator - Foundry
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• Shell Mould Assembler - Foundry
• Shell Moulder - Foundry
• Shot Maker - Foundry
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• Squeezer Machine Operator - Foundry
• Squeezer Moulder - Foundry
• Strand Operator - Foundry
• Vessel Operator - Foundry
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