Metal and Mineral Processing Labourers
Job description
These individuals handle, clean, and pack in the mining industry. They work in steel mills or metal and mineral processing plants (copper, lead, zinc, etc.).
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Nontoxic dust
- Noise
- Fire, steam, hot surfaces
- Falling objects
Main tasks
- Transport raw materials, finished products, recyclables, and scrap metal to the plant.
- Load equipment (conveyors, crushers, etc.).
- Sort, stack, wrap, and stamp materials.
- Clean work areas and equipment.
- Participate in minor repair and maintenance work as required.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to senior positions.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
2,500
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 9.6% Female
- 90.4% Male
Not available.
- 9.6% Female
- 90.4% 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
$52,000
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 33128% of jobs
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NAICS 4119% of jobs
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NAICS 32715% of jobs
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NAICS 3328% of jobs
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NAICS 235% of jobs
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Others25% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 33128% of jobs
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NAICS 4119% of jobs
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NAICS 32715% of jobs
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NAICS 3328% of jobs
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NAICS 235% of jobs
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Others25% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
No specific training
Sometimes required
- A high school diploma may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Information processing
Abilities
- Near vision
- Manual dexterity
- Core strength
- Static muscle power
- Control accuracy
- Limb coordination
- Digital dexterity
- Information organization
- Awareness of issues
- Hand-arm stability
- Oral comprehension
- Endurance
- Verbal skills
- Perception speed
- Physical flexibility in extension
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to work in a team
- Knowledge of production and treatment
- Commitment
- Sense of initiative
- Respect standards and regulations
- Commitment to quality
- Tolerance to routine work
- Timeliness
Interests
- Work manually
- Exercer une activité sportive ou physique
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 95100
Labourers in mineral and metal processing
Job titles
- Primary metal processing labourer
- Ore processing labourer
- Casting helper
- Steel plant labourer
- Foundry worker - primary metal processing
- Helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Extruder helper - primary metal processing
- Screening equipment helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Slime recovery plant helper - primary metal processing
- Depiler helper - primary metal processing
- Billet helper - primary metal processing
- Cadmium leach helper
- Machine helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Scrap machine helper - primary metal processing
- Glass-forming machine operator helper
- Extrusion helper - primary metal processing
- Production helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Alumina recovery helper
- Metal reclaimer helper - primary metal processing
- Selenium recovery helper - primary metal processing
- Stretcher-leveller helper - primary metal processing
- Ore crushing helper
- Mill helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Ball mill helper - mineral products processing
- Alumina clarifier helper
- Furnace helper
- Lime kiln helper - mineral products processing
- Mixer helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Potlining mixer helper - primary metal processing
- Molten metal mixer helper - primary metal processing
- Scalping helper - primary metal processing
- Wire drawing helper
- Flotation cell helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Tankhouse helper - primary metal processing
- Precipitator helper - primary metal processing
- Rolling mill helper - primary metal processing
- Crushing operations helper - mineral products processing
- Refinery helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Melt shop helper
- Classifier helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Foundry helper - primary metal processing
- Coke oven heater helper
- Casting machine helper
- Refiner helper
- Electrolytic refiner helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Charger helper - primary metal processing
- Heater helper - primary metal processing
- Welding-rod-extruder operator helper - primary metal processing
- Metal pourer helper
- Fibreglass oven charger helper
- Drawer helper - primary metal processing
- Rod drawer helper - primary metal processing
- Tube drawer helper - primary metal processing
- Melter helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Cupola furnace helper
- Blast furnace helper
- Billet mill helper - primary metal processing
- Foil roller helper - primary metal processing
- Sheet roller helper - primary metal processing
- Tube roller helper - primary metal processing
- Moulder helper - primary metal processing
- Kiln operator helper - mineral products manufacturing
- Lime kiln operator helper - mineral products processing
- Annealer helper - primary metal processing
- Casting wheel operator helper
- Jigger operator helper - mineral products processing
- Scrap shredder helper
- Reagent tender helper - primary metal processing
- Zinc electrolysis lead burner helper
- Wire drawer helper
- Cladding assembler - primary metal processing
- Cathode loader
- Coke loader - primary metal processing
- Scrap metal loader
- Sintering machine loader - primary metal processing
- Asbestosboard shearer
- Buggy operator - primary metal processing
- Gravel screener
- Plasterboard cutter - mineral products processing
- Billet pusher
- Mould stripper - concrete products manufacturing
- Asbestos mould stripper
- Fettler - clay products manufacturing
- Castings cleaner - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Dross skimmer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Furnace skimmer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Porcelain glazer - mineral products manufacturing
- Glass packer
- Insulation packer - mineral products manufacturing
- Scrap metal baler - primary metal processing
- Saggar placer - clay products manufacturing
- Bisque placer - mineral products manufacturing
- Furnace feeder - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Cupola charger - primary metal and mineral processing
- Shot bagger - explosives manufacturing
- Stamper - primary metal processing
- Rod puller and coiler - primary metal processing
- Zinc cathode puller
- Slip sealer - mineral products processing
- Clay products finisher
- Castings trimmer
- Alloy mixer - primary metal processing
- Metal powder lubricator finisher
- Coil bander - primary metal processing
- Plugger - primary metal processing
- Labourer - metallurgy
- Labourer - mineral and metal processing
- Labourer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Tailings disposal labourer - primary metal processing
- Asbestos shingle floor hand
- Balcony labourer - glass manufacturing
- Ball mill labourer - mineral products processing
- Dust-collector labourer - primary metal processing
- Conveyor labourer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Salt screening labourer
- Kiln labourer
- Rolling mill labourer - primary metal processing
- Refinery labourer
- Melt shop labourer
- Core room labourer - foundry
- Foundry labourer
- Casting house labourer
- Marker - primary metal processing
- Metal tube marker - primary metal processing
- Kiln door builder - mineral products processing
- Asbestos moulder
- Chalk moulder - mineral products processing
- Filter leaves cleaner - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Soaking pit bottom cleaner - primary metal processing
- Furnace cleaner - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Brick and tile kiln cleaner
- Industrial furnace cleaner - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Ware cleaner - clay products manufacturing
- Utility machine worker - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Automatic scrap washer operator
- Conveyor operator - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Hot bed leverman/woman - primary metal processing
- Depiler table leverman/woman - primary metal processing
- Atomizer operator - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Sludge worker - primary metal processing
- Zinc drosser
- Ore processing pipe maintenance worker
- Scrubber tender - mineral products processing
- Chalk extruder
- Lime slaker
- Metal impregnator - primary metal processing
- Alloy processor - primary metal processing
- Glass tapper - mineral products processing
- Zinc dust maker
- Balcony worker - glass manufacturing
- Flue dust labourer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Clay press worker
- Scrap metal processor - primary metal processing
- Hydrate scale reclaimer - primary metal processing
- Powdered metal salvager - primary metal processing
- Lead reclaimer - primary metal processing
- Foil separator - primary metal processing
- Aluminum sheet separator
- Abrasive reclaimer - mineral products processing
- Mill labourer - mineral products processing
- Ball mill worker - mineral products processing
- Busher - primary metal processing
- Stonework filler - mineral products processing
- Coke oven tar chaser
- Dust remover - primary metal processing
- Baghouse attendant - mineral processing
- Scaler - primary metal processing
- Rolling mill worker
- Brick and tile batch mixer
- Powdered metal mixer - primary metal processing
- Copper dust-collector worker
- Dryer worker - primary metal processing
- Acid conditioning worker - primary metal processing
- Tapper - primary metal processing
- Tapper - glass manufacturing
- Asbestos worker
- Scrap yard worker - primary metal processing
- Extruder tender - mineral products processing
- Cupola tapper
- Furnace tapper - primary metal processing
- Charge weigher - primary metal processing
- Ingot cladder
- Asbestosboard sander
- Stone bed setter - mineral products processing
- Carnallite flux maker
- Fluorspar flux maker - primary metal processing
- Cartridge flux maker
- Filtering attendant - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Coke oven standpipe attendant
- Rolling mill catcher - primary metal processing
- Cold roll catcher - primary metal processing
- Utility labourer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- Cold mill feeder - primary metal processing
- Plasterboard machine feeder - mineral products manufacturing
- Scrap metal sorter and baler - primary metal processing
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
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