Foundry Workers
Job description
These individuals make moulds, pour molten metal, and operate furnaces. They work in steel mills and in metal casting departments of metal product manufacturers.
Environment
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Odours
- Uncontrolled ambient temperature
- Noise
- Fire, steam, hot surfaces
Main tasks
Manual Moulders
- Make moulds using various methods (bench, floor, sand, etc.).
- Repair and dry moulds.
- Pour molten metal into moulds to produce castings.
Hand Coremakers
- Make cores that, once placed inside the moulds, will form cavities in the cast products.
- Coat the cores with protective substances and then bake them in ovens.
Machine Moulders and Coremakers
- Prepare, set up, and operate mould and core-making machines.
Metal Melters
- Prepare and use machines to produce castings of metal products.
- Cast molten metal into moulds.
Foundry Furnace Operators
- Use furnaces to melt metals for casting and pouring.
Advancement and mobility
- There is some mobility between the different positions in this group.
- Experience leads to supervisory positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $17.49
- Median
- $26.00
- Maximum
- $35.00
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
1,500
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 6.6% Female
- 93.4% Male
Not available.
- 6.6% Female
- 93.4% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$57,200
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 33172% of jobs
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NAICS 3324% of jobs
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NAICS 3394% of jobs
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NAICS 3264% of jobs
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NAICS 334, 3352% of jobs
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Others14% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 33172% of jobs
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NAICS 3324% of jobs
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NAICS 3394% of jobs
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NAICS 3264% of jobs
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NAICS 334, 3352% of jobs
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Others14% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
DVS in fonderie
Code : 5203
Placement rate: 83.9%
8.4% of graduates pursue further studies
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Information processing
- Monitoring operations
- Result evaluation
Abilities
- Manual dexterity
- Digital dexterity
- Core strength
- Limb coordination
- Static muscle power
- Hand-arm stability
- Near vision
- Control accuracy
- Endurance
- Reaction time
- Auditory attention
- Selective attention
- Oral comprehension
- Speed control
- Dynamic strength
- Information organization
- Deductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Physical flexibility in extension
- Visualization
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Focussed on results
- Autonomy
- Capacity to work in a team
- Knowledge of production and treatment
- Respect standards and regulations
- Assiduity and punctuality
- Commitment to quality
- Tolerance to routine work
- Timeliness
Interests
- Make, build, install
- Work manually
- Develop and exploit natural resources
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.
Official name of the NOC 94101
Foundry workers
Job titles
- Foundry pourer
- Metal caster - foundry
- Melter - foundry
- Foundry furnace operator
- Casting machine operator - foundry
- Apprentice moulder - foundry
- Roto-lift operator - foundry
- Wax-pattern assembler and repairer - foundry
- Sand coremaker
- Hand sand-core maker - foundry
- Pellet maker - foundry
- Brass caster
- White-metal caster - foundry
- Mould caster - foundry
- Ammunition caster - foundry
- Copper caster - foundry
- Hand lead caster - foundry
- Lost wax caster - foundry
- Shell core maker - foundry
- Pattern gater
- Granular aluminum caster - foundry
- Lead shot caster - foundry
- Ornamental caster - foundry
- Iron caster - foundry
- Core setter - foundry
- Wax-pattern mouldmaker - foundry
- Bench moulder - foundry
- Manual moulder
- Investment caster - foundry
- Sand floor moulder - foundry
- Floor moulder - foundry
- Dry-sand moulder - foundry
- Bullet moulder - foundry
- Metal frame moulder - foundry
- Hot-box moulder - foundry
- Pit moulder
- Sand moulder
- Squeezer moulder - foundry
- Custom moulder - foundry
- Hand mouldmaker - foundry
- Foundry mouldmaker
- Ceramic mouldmaker - foundry
- Bench coremaker - foundry
- Pipe coremaker - foundry
- Core extruder - foundry
- Cope and drag pinlift operator - foundry
- Cupola furnace operator - foundry
- Vessel operator - foundry
- Sand system operator - foundry
- Furnace operator - foundry
- Channel furnace operator - foundry
- Induction furnace operator - foundry
- Electric furnace operator - foundry
- Sand mill operator - foundry
- Automatic casting machine operator - foundry
- Lead casting machine operator
- Grid-caster operator - foundry
- Squeezer machine operator - foundry
- Automatic moulding machine operator - foundry
- Strand operator - foundry
- Sand-slinger operator - foundry
- Permanent mould operator - foundry
- Core-blower machine operator - foundry
- Hunter machine operator - foundry
- Core-sand-mixer - foundry
- Core machine operator - foundry
- Centrifugal casting machine tender - foundry
- Die-casting machine tender - foundry
- Sintering press tender - foundry
- Sand control operator - foundry
- Foundry sand mixer
- Shell moulder - foundry
- Foundry worker
- Die-casting machine setter - foundry
- Moulding and coremaking machine setter - foundry
- Mould setter - foundry
- Shell mould assembler - foundry
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
Last update: January 29, 2026
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