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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.4 - operating machinery for the extraction and processing of raw materials S8.4.2 - operating metal processing and finishing machinery Operate metal heating equipment
Description
Use heating machinery to bake filled-up moulds or to melt steel, metal and other materials.
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
- Metal annealerMetal annealers operate electric or gas kilns to soften metal so it can be cut and shaped more easily. They heat the metal to a specific temperature and /…
- BlacksmithBlacksmiths heat metal, usually steel, in a forge and shape it with a hammer, chisel, and an anvil. Contemporarily, they predominantly create artisanal metal products, including or…
Optional for
- Coquille casting workerCoquille casting workers manufacture castings, including pipes, tubes, hollow profiles and other products of the first processing of steel, by operating hand-controlled equipm…
- Casting machine operatorCasting machine operators operate casting machines to manipulate metal substances into shape. They set up and tend casting machines to process molten ferrous and non-ferrous metals…
Related skills
- Remove finished casts
- Handle metal work orders
- Ferrous metal processing
- Manage time in casting processes
- Heat metals
- Non-ferrous metal processing
- Assemble metal parts
- Cut metal products
- Monitor gauge
- Troubleshoot
- Types of metal manufacturing processes
- Maintain furnace temperature
Last updated on February 18, 2026
