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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.7 - using hand tools S6.7.2 - shaping materials to create products Melt wax
Description
Safely heat wax to the correct temperature so it melts and becomes a pliable susbtance.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 1 occupations
- Total: 3 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Essential for
- Wax bleacherWax bleachers operate and maintain filter presses and tanks, used in wax bleaching, for candle production processes. Duties A wax bleacher typically does the following: Tends vats …
- Candle makerCandle makers mold candles, place the wick in the middle of the mold and fill the mold with wax, by hand or machine. They remove the candle from the…
Optional for
- Injection moulding operatorInjection moulding operators operate and monitor injection moulding machines, in order to cast products from thermoplastic materials. They regulate the temperature, pressure, and v…
Related skills
- Types of waxes
- Select mould types
- Set up the controller of a machine
- Use personal protection equipment
- Candle making techniques
- Maintain moulds
- Trim excess material
- Tend wax bleaching machinery
- Dye candles
- Beeswax
- Shape candles
- Extract products from moulds
- Quality standards
Last updated on February 18, 2026
