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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.7 - using hand tools S6.7.2 - shaping materials to create products Operate forging tongs
Description
Operate the appropriate forging tools and equipment safely, including forging tongs for handling and moving hot metal workpieces during forging processes.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 2 occupations
- Total: 4 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- Hydraulic forging press workerHydraulic forging press workers set up and tend hydraulic forging presses, designed to shape ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces including pipes, tubes and hollow profiles and…
- Drop forging hammer workerDrop forging hammer workers utilise forging machinery and equipment, specifically machined hammers, in order to form ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces to their desired shape…
Optional for
- Upsetting machine operatorUpsetting machine operators set up and tend upsetting machines, primarily crank presses, designed to form through forging processes metal workpieces, usually wires, rods, or bars, …
- Mechanical forging press workerMechanical forging press workers set up and tend mechanical forging presses, designed to shape ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces including pipes, tubes and hollow profiles a…
Related skills
- Mechanical forging press parts
- Forging processes
- Cold forging
- Hot forging
- Types of forging press
- Remove inadequate workpieces
- Monitor automated machines
- Troubleshoot
- Replace die
- Types of metal
- Ensure correct metal temperature
- Remove processed workpiece
- Dies
- Hold metal work piece in machine
- Perform machine maintenance
- Types of metal manufacturing processes
Last updated on February 18, 2026
