Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combination of following tasks involved in coremaking: Pastes core sections together to form completed core.

• 2) Brushes, dips, or sprays solution, such as graphite, on cores to produce smooth finish.

• 3) Carries and loads cores into oven.

• 4) Piles cores on racks for drying.

• 5) Carries sand to coreroom.

• 6) Forms core reinforcing rods and wires into specified shape by hand or by machine.

• 7) Pulls wires and rods from finished castings, using pliers, hammer and chisel, and special hooks.

• 8) Dresses cores, using handtools or power tools, such as files, scrapers, and grinding wheel.

• 9) May fill cracks in surface of core with putty or patching sand, using putty knife.