Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that makes shell molds used to produce metal castings: Starts machine that automatically forms and cures shell.

• 2) Strips cured shell halves from machine and positions shell half on fixture of mold-closing machine.

• 3) Brushes glue around edges of shell half.

• 4) Positions remaining shell half on top of lower half and activates ram that exerts pressure on shell until glue has set.

• 5) May glue and assemble shell halves by hand.

• 6) May clamp, wire, or bolt shell halves together.

• 7) May bolt pattern and core box to bed of machine.

• 8) May produce cores on shell making machine and be designated Shell Coremaker.