Job Description:

• 1) Operates molding machine to form sand molds used in production of metal castings: Assembles flask, pattern, and follow board on molding table of machine.

• 2) Sifts sand over pattern, using riddle, and fills flask with sand by opening hopper or using shovel.

• 3) Packs sand around pattern contours, using ramming tool or pneumatic hammer.

• 4) Starts machine that compacts sand in flask to form mold.

• 5) Cuts pouring spout and vents in mold, using sprue cutter and wire.

• 6) Lifts cope half of flask off drag half and removes pattern.

• 7) Cleans cavity of mold, using airhose.

• 8) Positions cores in drag, and assembles cope and drag.

• 9) May set cores in mold cavity.

• 10) May install pattern on bed of machine, and adjust pressure of ram.

• 11) May be designated by machine operated as Machine Molder, Roll-Over; Machine Molder, Squeeze; or product molded as Molder, Fitting.