Heat Treatment Operators
Job description
These individuals apply heat treatments to parts to modify their characteristics. They work in:
- Companies in heat treatment
- Machine shops
- Primary metal processors
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Odours
- Nontoxic dust
- Radiation
- Uncontrolled ambient temperature
- Hazardous workplaces
- Noise
- Fire, steam, hot surfaces
- Electricity
Main tasks
- Prepare the parts and equipment to be transformed.
- Fill in the production forms.
- Set the machinery parameters (temperature, time, pressure, etc.).
- Control the quality of the treatment applied.
- Identify and solve technical problems.
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
DVS in opération d'équipements de production
Code : 5362
Placement rate: 80.4%
13.3% of graduates pursue further studies
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Operations and control
- Monitoring operations
- Quality control analysis
- Active listening
- Result evaluation
- Oral expression
- Equipment maintenance
- Judgment and decision-making
- Critical thought
Abilities
- Hand-arm stability
- Limb coordination
- Reaction time
- Manual dexterity
- Awareness of issues
- Near vision
- Core strength
- Static muscle power
- Control accuracy
- Selective attention
- Digital dexterity
- Endurance
- Information organization
- Perception speed
- Speech clarity
- Speed control
- Verbal skills
- Deductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Processing flexibility
- Visualization
- Auditory attention
- Classification
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Depth perception
- Response orientation
- Physical flexibility in extension
- Distance vision
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to work in a team
- Knowledge of production and treatment
- Rigour
- Respect standards and regulations
- Capacity for synthesis
- Sense of observation
- Commitment to quality
- Tolerance to frequent temperature variations
Interests
- Make, build, install
- Develop and exploit natural resources
- Conduct tests and trials, control processes
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Appellation d’emploi liée (à traduire)
Machine operators, mineral and metal processing (CNP 94100)
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
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Last update: January 29, 2026
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