Foundry Laborer

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Job description

Duties may include but not limited to:

• Performs any combination of following tasks in foundry concerned with melting metal, pouring metal into molds, removing castings from molds, dressing castings, moving foundry materials, and cleaning equipment and work areas: Moves sand, castings, cores, flasks, or other materials about foundry by hand, using wheelbarrow or cart, or by loading them onto conveyor.
• Assembles flasks, using wrench, bolts, and tap screws.
• Waters and mixes sand, shovels sand into flasks, and compacts sand in flasks, using ramming tool.
• Fits together, clamps, and unclamps cope and drag on production line.
• Weighs out specified amounts of materials for furnace charge and loads charge into melting furnace.
• Skims slag from surface of molten metal, using scoop.
• Carries or pushes ladles of molten metal on monorail and pours metal into molds.
• Installs and removes steel jackets and bands used to hold snap molds together during casting.
• Breaks sand mold from finished casting, using bar or hammer.
• Sorts castings into pairs or groups for assembly.
• Cleans and/or grinds castings or cleans patterns and flasks
• Removes gates, sprues, and other projections from castings with sledge, pneumatic hammer, power shear, or power hacksaw.
• Breaks up used sand molds with bar, shovels sand into drying oven and sand-mixing machine and sifts sand through motor-driven screen for reuse in new molds.
• Breaks up slag and removes ladle linings
• Prepares plaster and relines ladle.
• Cleans work areas.
• May be designated according to worker assisted or according to duty performed as Casting Carrier; Casting Sorter; Flask Carrier; Jacket Changer;

Ladle-Liner Helper, Ladle Pusher; Mold Clamper; Mold-Closer Helper; MolderHelper; Molder Helper, Machine; Mold Stacker; Pattern Carrier; PatternCleaner; Sand-Screener Operator; Sand Shoveler; Sand Wheeler; Shake-OutWorker; Skimmer; Slag Worker; Sprue Knocker, Core Maker, Core Cleaner,Cleaning Room Grinder, Shipping.''

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $15.00 - $20.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Paid time off

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Work Location: In person