Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason Build or repair equipment such as furnaces, kilns, cupolas, boilers, converters, ladles, soaking pits, and ovens, using refractory materials.
Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason is Also Know as
In different settings, Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason is titled as
- Cell Reliner
- Cupola Repairer
- Furnace Repairer
- Hot Repairman
- Ladle Liner
- Ladle Repairman
- Refractory Bricklayer
- Refractory Technician
- Refractory Worker
Education and Training of Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason
Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason
- Bachelor in Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology/Te
- Associate Degree Courses in Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology/Te
- Masters Degree Courses in Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology/Te
Training Required for Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason in different industries are
- Brickmasons and Blockmasons
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic
- Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Foundry Mold and Coremakers
- Terrazzo Workers and Finishers
- Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
- Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers
- Sheet Metal Workers
- Boilermakers
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Pourers and Casters, Metal
- Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
- Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
- Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
What Do Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason do?
- Reline or repair ladles and pouring spouts with refractory clay, using trowels.
- Chip slag from linings of ladles or remove linings when beyond repair, using hammers and chisels.
- Mix specified amounts of sand, clay, mortar powder, and water to form refractory clay or mortar, using shovels or mixing machines.
- Measure furnace walls to determine dimensions and cut required number of sheets from plastic block, using saws.
- Tighten locknuts holding refractory stopper assemblies together, spread mortar on jackets to seal sleeve joints, and dry mortar in ovens.
- Dry and bake new linings by placing inverted linings over burners, building fires in ladles, or by using blowtorches.
- Remove worn or damaged plastic block refractory linings of furnaces, using hand tools.
- Fasten stopper heads to rods with metal pins to assemble refractory stoppers used to plug pouring nozzles of steel ladles.
- Climb scaffolding, carrying hoses, and spray surfaces of cupolas with refractory mixtures, using spray equipment.
- Drill holes in furnace walls, bolt overlapping layers of plastic to walls, and hammer surfaces to compress layers into solid sheets.
- Spread mortar on stopper heads and rods, using trowels, and slide brick sleeves over rods to form refractory jackets.
- Dump and tamp clay in molds, using tamping tools.
- Disassemble molds, and cut, chip, and smooth clay structures such as floaters, drawbars, and L-blocks.
- Transfer clay structures to curing ovens, melting tanks, and drawing kilns, using forklifts.
- Install preformed metal scaffolding in interiors of cupolas, using hand tools.
- Install clay structures in melting tanks and drawing kilns to control the flow and temperature of molten glass, using hoists and hand tools.
Qualities of Good Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
Tools Used by Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason
- Acid scrubbers
- Band saws
- Boom trucks
- Brick cutting saws
- Brick hammers
- Burner management systems
- Conveyor belts
- Cordless power grinders
- Cordless power nibblers
- Cordless saws
- Cutting torches
- Dump trucks
- Electric overhead traveling EOT crane
- Feed fired heaters
- Flat cold chisels
- Floor-mounted jib cranes
- Foundry transfer ladles
- Heavy duty shears
- Horizontal helical blade mixers
- Lift trucks
- Masonry trowels
- Mixer trucks
- Personal computers
- Puck mills
- Return idlers
- Rotary kilns
- Rotary tools
- Skid steer tractors
- Trackhoes
- Trough finders
- Variable speed mortar pumps
- Wheeled forklifts
- Wheeled front-end loaders
Technology Skills required for Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmason
- Maintenance management software
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Time tracking software