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
Not available.Job prospects for 2021-2025
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Job prospects for 2021-2025
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2020
All of Québec
3,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 8.1% Female
- 91.9% Male
Not available.
- 8.1% Female
- 91.9% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2015
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 33169% of jobs
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NAICS 3325% of jobs
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NAICS 234% of jobs
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NAICS 336 [excluding 3364]4% of jobs
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NAICS 412% of jobs
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Others16% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 33169% of jobs
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NAICS 3325% of jobs
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NAICS 234% of jobs
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NAICS 336 [excluding 3364]4% of jobs
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NAICS 412% of jobs
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Others16% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
DVS
in
fonderie
Code : 5203
Placement rate: 88.5%
8.6% 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 9412
Foundry workers
Job titles
- Foundry pourer
- Metal caster
- Foundry furnace operator
- Casting machine operator
- Apprentice moulder - foundry
- Roto-lift operator - foundry
- Sand coremaker
- Hand sand-core maker - foundry
- Shot maker - foundry
- Wax-pattern assembler and repairer
- Grid caster - foundry
- Brass caster
- White-metal caster - foundry
- Mould caster - foundry
- Ammunition caster - foundry
- Copper caster - foundry
- Hand lead caster - foundry
- Lost wax caster - foundry
- Wax-pattern coater
- Shell core maker - foundry
- Pattern gater
- Melter - foundry
- Granular aluminum caster - foundry
- Lead shot caster - foundry
- Iron moulder - foundry
- Ornamental caster - foundry
- Core setter - foundry
- Wax-pattern moulder
- Manual moulder
- Jobbing moulder
- Bench moulder
- Lost pattern 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 - foundry
- Pit moulder
- Sand moulder
- Machine-line moulder - foundry
- Squeezer moulder - foundry
- Job moulder - foundry
- Hand mouldmaker - foundry
- Pattern moulder - foundry
- Ceramic mouldmaker
- Ceramic mouldmaker - foundry
- Coremaker - foundry
- Machine coremaker
- Machine coremaker - foundry
- Jobbing coremaker
- 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
- Die-casting machine operator
- Squeezer machine operator - foundry
- Sand-slinger operator - foundry
- Automatic moulding machine operator - foundry
- Strand operator - foundry
- Permanent mould operator - foundry
- Core-blower machine operator - foundry
- Hunter machine operator - foundry
- Core-sand-mixer - foundry
- Coremaking machine operator - foundry
- Core oven operator - foundry
- Centrifugal casting machine operator
- Centrifugal casting machine tender - foundry
- Die-casting machine tender - foundry
- Sintering press tender - foundry
- Core oven tender - foundry
- Sand control operator - foundry
- Sand processing operator - foundry
- Shell moulder - foundry
- Foundry worker
- Core room set-up woman - foundry
- Die-casting machine set-up man/woman - foundry
- Moulding and coremaking machine setter - foundry
- Mould setter - foundry
- Shell mould assembler - foundry
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
Last update: July 4, 2022