Summary
Responsible for varied facets of the mold casting process.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- 1st Responsibility - Ensuring personal safety and the safety of your team members.
- Assists supervisors and managers in maintaining a safe and healthy work environment.
- Wears appropriate PPE which may include fall protection, respiratory protection, hearing protection, foot, hand, head and eye protection.
- Uses proper lifting and ergo techniques.
- Reads work orders or receives oral instructions to determine work assignments, material or equipment needs.
- Follows detailed job specific instructions to make sure castings are produced in the most efficient manner and to meet customer specifications.
- Conducts daily inspection of equipment.
- Sets up, operates, or tends metal molding, casting, or core-making machines to mold or cast metal parts or products.
- Sifts and packs sand into mold sections, core boxes, and pattern contours, using hand or pneumatic ramming tools.
- Cleans and smooths molds, cores, and core boxes, and repair surface imperfections.
- Forms and assembles slab cores around patterns and position wire in mold sections to reinforce molds, using hand tools and glue.
- Moves and positions workpieces such as mold sections, patterns, and bottom boards, using cranes, or signal others to move workpieces.
- Sprinkles or sprays parting agents onto patterns and mold sections to facilitate removal of patterns from molds.
- Tends machines that bond cope and drag together to form completed shell molds.
- Smooths and cleans inner surfaces of molds, using brushes, scrapers, air hoses, or grinding wheels, and fill imperfections with refractory material.
- Mixes and measures compounds, or weighs premixed compounds, and dumps them into machine tubs, cavities, or molds.
- Notifies supervisor of errors or equipment stoppage.
- Clears equipment at end of operating run and reviews schedule to determine next assignment.
- Records problems which occurred, such as down time, and actions taken.
- Meets or exceeds hourly production rates every hour.
- Maintains cleanliness of the production area.
- Proactively promotes The McWane Way Principles.