Metal Plate Workers, Smiths, Moulders and Related Occupations Career Details
About this Career
New workers start at around £22,684. Normal pay is £33,730 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £51,453.
Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons in Greater London, and do not distinguish between full and part-time jobs.
Daily Tasks
- Scoops molten metal from furnace into die or die casting machine.
- Fits and secures horses shoes.
- Tempers and hardens forged pieces, as required, by quenching in oil or water.
- Uses forging tools to shape and cut metal and bends or shapes metal by hand forging methods using hammers, punches, drifts and other hand tools.
- Operates press or hammer and repositions workpiece between strokes.
- Heats metal for forging and positions heated metal on anvil or other work surface.
- Seals seams with caulking compound, smooths welds, fixes metal doors, metal collars, portholes, tank and hatch covers and performs other metal plate finishing tasks using a variety of hand and power tools.
- Creates mould units out of sand, loam or plaster by hand or machine and fits cores into mould to form hollow parts in casting.
- Uses hydraulic jacks to position and align metal platework or frame for welding and bolting and rivets together metal plate and girders.
- Uses machine tools to bend, curve, punch, drill and straighten metal plate as required.
- Marks out metal plate with guidelines and reference points and cuts metal plate using hand or machine tools.
- Examines drawings and specifications to determine operational requirements.
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