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Employment Percentage
-230.5555556
SOC ID
51-4052
SOC Title
Pourers and Casters, Metal
ONET ID
51-4052.00
ONET Concat ID
51405200
Median Salary
31220.79
Ed Level High School
91.220001
Ed Level Certificate
0
Ed Level Some College
7.51
Ed Level Associates
0
Ed Level Bachelors
1.27
Ed Level Masters
0
Ed Level Doctors
0
Typical Ed Level
a high school diploma or less
Career Description
Operate hand-controlled mechanisms to pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds to produce castings or ingots.
Core Tasks
  • Pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds and forms to produce ingots or other castings, using ladles or hand-controlled mechanisms.
  • Examine molds to ensure they are clean, smooth, and properly coated.
  • Read temperature gauges and observe color changes, adjusting furnace flames, torches, or electrical heating units as necessary to melt metal to specifications.
  • Pull levers to lift ladle stoppers and to allow molten steel to flow into ingot molds to specified heights.
  • Collect samples, or signal workers to sample metal for analysis.
  • Load specified amounts of metal and flux into furnaces or clay crucibles.
  • Add metal to molds to compensate for shrinkage.
  • Skim slag or remove excess metal from ingots or equipment, using hand tools, strainers, rakes, or burners, collecting scrap for recycling.
  • Remove metal ingots or cores from molds, using hand tools, cranes, and chain hoists.
  • Position equipment such as ladles, grinding wheels, pouring nozzles, or crucibles, or signal other workers to position equipment.
  • Transport metal ingots to storage areas, using forklifts.
  • Repair and maintain metal forms and equipment, using hand tools, sledges, and bars.
Start Annual Earnings
27913.59
Top Annual Earnings
56388.8
EMSI Career Title Slug
pourer-and-caster-metal