Metal moulders and coremakers
Metal moulders and coremakers make moulds and cores for casting metal.
Skill level: Semi-skilledCheck your pay
- Salary range for the majority of workers in Metal moulders and coremakers - from R8 115 to R37 486 per month - 2025.
- A Metal moulders and coremakers typically earns between R8 115 and R16 035 net per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between R9 392 and R20 408 per month for a working week of 45 hours.
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Duties and tasks
- Making moulds by hand or using auxiliary machines on a bench for small metal castings, on the foundry floor, or in a pit for large castings
- Making cores for use in metal moulds
- Cleaning and smoothing moulds, core boxes, and repairing surface imperfections
- Moving and positioning work pieces such as mould sections, patterns, and bottom boards, using cranes, or signalling others to move work pieces
- Positioning patterns inside mould sections and clamping sections together
- Cutting spouts, runner holes and sprue holes into moulds
- Lifting upper mould sections from lower sections and remove moulded patterns