Pourers and Casters, Metal Operate hand-controlled mechanisms to pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds to produce castings or ingots.
Pourers and Casters, Metal is Also Know as
In different settings, Pourers and Casters, Metal is titled as
- Casting Operator
- Die Cast Operator (DCO)
- Direct Chill Caster (DC Caster)
- Iron Pourer
- Ladleman
- Melter
- Metal Handler
- Pourer
- Vacuum Caster
Education and Training of Pourers and Casters, Metal
Pourers and Casters, Metal is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Pourers and Casters, Metal
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 Pourers and Casters, Metal
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Pourers and Casters, Metal
Training Required for Pourers and Casters, Metal
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 Pourers and Casters, Metal in different industries are
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic
- Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
- Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Machine Feeders and Offbearers
- Foundry Mold and Coremakers
- Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
- Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
- Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
What Do Pourers and Casters, Metal do?
- Collect samples, or signal workers to sample metal for analysis.
- Pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds and forms to produce ingots or other castings, using ladles or hand-controlled mechanisms.
- Read temperature gauges and observe color changes, adjusting furnace flames, torches, or electrical heating units as necessary to melt metal to specifications.
- Examine molds to ensure they are clean, smooth, and properly coated.
- Position equipment such as ladles, grinding wheels, pouring nozzles, or crucibles, or signal other workers to position equipment.
- Skim slag or remove excess metal from ingots or equipment, using hand tools, strainers, rakes, or burners, collecting scrap for recycling.
- Turn valves to circulate water through cores, or spray water on filled molds to cool and solidify metal.
- Add metal to molds to compensate for shrinkage.
- Pull levers to lift ladle stoppers and to allow molten steel to flow into ingot molds to specified heights.
- Load specified amounts of metal and flux into furnaces or clay crucibles.
- Remove solidified steel or slag from pouring nozzles, using long bars or oxygen burners.
- Assemble and embed cores in casting frames, using hand tools and equipment.
- Remove metal ingots or cores from molds, using hand tools, cranes, and chain hoists.
- Transport metal ingots to storage areas, using forklifts.
- Stencil identifying information on ingots and pigs, using special hand tools.
- Repair and maintain metal forms and equipment, using hand tools, sledges, and bars.
Qualities of Good Pourers and Casters, Metal
- 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.
- 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.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- 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.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- 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.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- 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.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- 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.
- 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.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- 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.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- 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.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- 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).
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- 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.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- 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.
- 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).
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- 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.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- 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).
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and 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.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Pourers and Casters, Metal
- Acetylene torches
- Automatic extractors
- Automatic ladles
- Bandsaws
- Chain falls
- Cold chamber die casting machines
- Coordinate measuring machines CMM
- Deburring tools
- Depth gauges
- Dross hoes
- Electric arc furnaces
- Electric overhead transfer EOT cranes
- Electric tilt furnaces
- Foundry molds
- Foundry tongs
- Go/no-go gauges
- Hand ladles
- Hand scrapers
- Handheld pneumatic grinders
- Heat resistant suits
- High temperature thermometers
- Hot chamber die casting machines
- Jib cranes
- Lubricant pumpers
- Lubricant reciprocators
- Mallets
- Metal sledgehammers
- Open-hearth furnaces
- Oxygen furnaces
- Power metal shears
- Precision bench scales
- Protective ear plugs
- Protective glasses
- Slag scrappers
- Vise-grip pliers
- Wheeled forklifts
- Wire brushes
Technology Skills required for Pourers and Casters, Metal
- Husky Injection Molding Systems Shotscope NX
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word