Other Metal Products Machine Operators
Job description
These individuals operate machines that manufacture a variety of metal parts and products (e.g. chain-making machine). They work for a wide range of metal product manufacturers.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Noise
- Falling objects
Main tasks
- Ensure that machinery (e.g. chain making machine) for parts manufacturing and metal products is operational.
- Adjust and assemble components.
- Clean, polish, or file products.
- Check the quality of products.
- Clean and lubricate machinery, as required.
Advancement and mobility
- There is some mobility between jobs in this group.
- Experience leads to supervisory positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $19.50
- Median
- $21.88
- Maximum
- $30.29
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
1,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 17% Female
- 83% Male
Not available.
- 17% Female
- 83% 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
$51,200
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 33237% of jobs
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NAICS 334, 33515% of jobs
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NAICS 3318% of jobs
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NAICS 336 [excluding 3364]7% of jobs
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NAICS 3336% of jobs
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Others27% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 33237% of jobs
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NAICS 334, 33515% of jobs
-
NAICS 3318% of jobs
-
NAICS 336 [excluding 3364]7% of jobs
-
NAICS 3336% of jobs
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Others27% of jobs
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
Sometimes required
- Experience as a labourer in the same company sometimes required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Monitoring operations
- Data collection
- Information processing
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Result evaluation
- Operations and control
- Time management
Abilities
- Near vision
- Oral comprehension
- Written comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Information organization
- Control accuracy
- Awareness of issues
- Hand-arm stability
- Reaction time
- Auditory attention
- Selective attention
- Speed control
- Limb coordination
- Digital dexterity
- Manual dexterity
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Perception speed
- Visualization
Knowledge and attributes
- Critical thinking
- Focussed on results
- Autonomy
- Capacity to work in a team
- Knowledge of production and treatment
- Versatility
- Rigour
- Respect standards and regulations
- Assiduity and punctuality
- Sense of observation
Interests
- Make, build, install
- Work manually
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 94107
Machine operators of other metal products
Job titles
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- Spring machine assembler
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- Hot-wound spring coiler
- Bolt maker
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- Scarfer-borer - metal products manufacturing
- Nail maker
- Buckshot swage operator
- Welding rod-extruder operator
- Can inspector - metal products manufacturing
- Tin can inspector
- Chain inspector
- Spring inspector
- Bullet cutter and former
- Wire screen cutter and trimmer
- Metal pipe machine cutter
- Shaker-plate tender
- Nut disk cutter
- Cable insulator
- Cartridge primers drop tester
- Chain tester
- Machine chain tester
- Spring tester
- Metal cable stretcher and tester
- Plating equipment fixture maker
- Industrial needle maker
- Wire screen maker
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- Metal pin maker
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- Reinforcing cage maker
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- Spring-coiling machine operator
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- Can machine operator
- Metal cable machine operator
- Hoop-making machine operator
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- Wire bundle machine operator
- Wire loop machine operator
- Bolt machine operator
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- Spring assembly machine operator
- Can-forming machine operator
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- Insulation machine operator
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- Roll threader operator
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- Metal sponge machine tender
- Slide fastener links machine tender
- Pocketed spring machine tender
- Coil spring machine tender
- Link wire machine tender
- Bullet-shaping machine tender
- Nail making machine tender
- Braider tender
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- Wire-pairing machine tender
- Chain-testing machine tender
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- Welding rod-extruder tender
- Coil-rewind machine tender
- Wire-rewinding machine tender
- Tapping machine tender
- Scribing machine tender
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- Knife blade polisher
- Cable armourer
- Spring coiler
- Valve spring coiler
- Wire rope sling and cable splicer
- Foil rewinder
- Machine wire rewinder
- Staple machine set-up operator
- Industrial needle machine set-up operator
- Safety pin machine set-up operator
- Spring machine set-up operator
- Link wire machine set-up operator
- Nail making machine set-up operator
- Bullet-swaging machine adjuster
- Can machine setter
- Grid machine job setter
- Wire-weaving loom setter
- Wire loom setter
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- Chain-making machine feeder
- Knurling machine feeder
- Crimping machine feeder - wire products manufacturing
- Axle cutter
- Wire screen weaver
- Wire weaver
- Bench loom wire weaver
- Wire lattice weaver
- Metalworking weaver - metal products manufacturing
- Wire netting weaver
- Wire lattice and wire mesh weaver
- Wire mesh knitter
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
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