Electrode worker

Metal moulders and coremakers make moulds and cores for casting metal.

• making moulds by hand for castings of various sizes using auxiliary equipment;
• making cores for metal casting;
• cleaning and smoothing castings and cores, and repairing and removing surface defects;
• moving and positioning workpieces, casting parts, sections and plates using cranes or signalling other workers to move workpieces;
• placing patterns in moulds;
• cutting runners, sprues and vents in moulds;
• lifting the upper section and separating the lower section to remove the patterns.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Coremaker-moulder
• Foundry worker (caster)
• Pourer, moulds
• Patternmaker
• Moulder