National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 Version 1.0

• 9 - Occupations in manufacturing and utilities
• 94 - Machine operators, assemblers and inspectors in processing, manufacturing and printing
• 941 - Processing and manufacturing machine operators and related production workers
• 9410 - Machine operators and related workers in mineral and metal products processing and manufacturing

94101 - Foundry workers

Foundry workers make foundry moulds and cores by hand or machine, cast molten metal, and operate furnaces in the foundry industry. They are employed by metal foundries and foundry departments of metal products manufacturing companies.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • bench moulder - foundry
  • casting machine operator - foundry
  • ceramic mouldmaker - foundry
  • die-casting machine operator
  • foundry worker
  • furnace operator - foundry
  • manual moulder
  • melter - foundry
  • pit moulder
  • sand coremaker
  • sand moulder

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • Continuous casting operator - primary metal processing (See 93100 Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing)
  • Foundry labourer (See 95100 Labourers in mineral and metal processing)
  • Foundry supervisor (See 92010 Supervisors, mineral and metal processing)
  • Furnace operator - primary metal and mineral products processing (See 93100 Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing)

• Main duties

  This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  Mouldmakers and coremakers

  • Make and repair sand moulds using patterns, moulding boxes, sand and hand tools following bench, floor or pit moulding methods
  • Operate ovens to dry moulds
  • Make cores for use inside moulds to form holes or void spaces in castings using core boxes, sand, hammer and wire or other reinforcing material
  • Coat cores with protective materials and bake cores in oven
  • Set up, adjust and operate various mouldmaking and coremaking machines to make sand and ceramics moulds and cores
  • May pour molten metal into moulds to produce metal castings.

  Metal casters

  • Set up and operate various casting machines to cast ferrous and non-ferrous metal products; hand ladle and pour molten metal into moulds to produce castings.

  Foundry furnace operators

  • Operate furnaces used to melt metals for moulding and casting.

• Employment requirements

  • Completion of secondary school is required.
  • Several weeks of on-the-job training are required.

• Additional information

  • There is some mobility between workers in this unit group.
  • Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.