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| 8122 METAL MELTERS, CASTERS AND ROLLING-MILL OPERATORS
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Metal melters, casters and rolling-mill operators operate
and monitor rolling mills to roll metal, or furnaces to melt or
reheat metal, or machines to cast metal.
Tasks include -
(a) operating and monitoring furnaces to melt ferrous and non-
ferrous metal for casting;
(b) operating and monitoring furnaces to reheat stock metal
forms prior to forging, power-pressing, rolling and further
processing;
(c) operating and monitoring rolling mills to shape hot or cold
steel into shapes for further processing, or into final
shapes;
(d) operating and monitoring rolling mills to reduce or form hot
or cold non-ferrous metal to specified shapes, such as
plate, sheet or foil;
(e) operating and monitoring rolls to form seamless tubes and
pipes from billets which have been pierced longitudinally;
(f) pouring molten metal into moulds and operating and
monitoring casting machines
(g) performing related tasks;
(h) supervising other workers.
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Furnace-operator, melting/metal
- Machine-operator, casting/metal
- Operator, rolling mill/nonferrous metal
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