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Also called coremaker, hand coremaker, airset caster and airset molder.

$48,110
Median pay a year
12,790
People do this work
6
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Foundry Mold and Coremaker

Summary

Foundry Mold and Coremaker making wax or sand molds and cores for metal castings, cleaning and repairing molds, packing sand, positioning patterns and cores, and pouring molten metal into molds

Experience

Foundry Mold and Coremaker

Where you worked

Month Year to Month Year
  • Cleaned and smoothed molds, cores, and core boxes, and repaired surface imperfections
  • Sifted and packed sand into mold sections and core boxes using hand or pneumatic ramming tools
  • Positioned patterns inside mold sections and clamped sections together
  • Positioned cores into lower sections of molds and reassembled molds for pouring
  • Sprinkled or sprayed parting agents onto patterns and mold sections to help remove patterns from molds
  • Moved and positioned workpieces, such as mold sections and patterns, using cranes or signaled others to move workpieces
  • Poured molten metal into molds, manually or with crane ladles

Skills

Hands-On Work
Building production molds, Cleaning production equipment, Positioning workpieces
Core Skills
Placing materials into molds, Applying parting agents, Removing workpieces from molds, Cutting industrial materials, Smoothing metal surfaces, Operating heating and drying equipment, Lifting materials

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  • High School Diploma
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  • Cleaned and smoothed molds and cores to eliminate surface imperfections and ensure quality.
  • Positioned patterns accurately inside mold sections to facilitate proper casting.

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Cleaned and smoothed molds and cores to improve overall mold quality and eliminate surface imperfections

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Improved overall mold qualityEnhanced casting surface finish

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Mention if you were trusted to position patterns for others.

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Positioned patterns accurately inside mold sections to facilitate proper casting.

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Trained new workers on pattern positioningLed pattern setup for team projectsOversaw pattern placement during shifts

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  • Building production molds
  • Placing materials into molds
  • Cleaning production equipment
  • Applying parting agents
  • Removing workpieces from molds
  • Cutting industrial materials
  • Smoothing metal surfaces
  • Positioning workpieces
  • Operating heating and drying equipment
  • Lifting materials
  • Signaling others

The work itself

What a Foundry Mold and Coremaker does

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Make or form wax or sand cores or molds used in the production of metal castings in foundries.

What it pays

How much does a Foundry Mold and Coremaker make?

Annual pay across the United States. The middle figure is the median: half earn less than that, and half earn more.

25th percentile$41,870
Median$48,110
75th percentile$57,350

About 12,790 people do this work in the United States.

What it pays in each state
State25th percentileMedian75th percentile
AL$46,980$51,040$54,800
AR$39,120$42,200$45,090
CA$41,100$46,930$55,370
CO$40,280$42,240$48,440
CT$39,430$47,310$65,090
FL$36,390$38,330$44,370
GA$44,940$46,220$58,860
IA$43,250$49,060$54,920
IL$48,820$57,110$57,110
IN$44,970$49,860$55,750
KS$38,740$47,910$47,910
KY$39,970$43,610$47,680
MA$47,480$55,940$71,190
MI$41,010$46,150$59,540
MN$51,220$56,840$71,940
MO$60,540$61,480$61,480
MS$39,560$39,560$43,950
NC$37,110$46,910$57,350
NE$40,860$45,910$48,920
NH$38,650$43,210$49,660
NJ$49,610$55,210$55,210
NY$45,180$54,380$58,970
OH$42,630$49,040$60,130
OK$36,720$43,550$44,060
OR$52,590$67,060$67,940
PA$41,870$44,750$48,610
SC$37,460$41,100$46,090
TN$35,430$37,310$42,150
TX$37,760$42,190$46,920
UT$35,220$44,970$53,420
VA$40,090$43,130$66,840
WA$43,400$48,440$58,280
WI$36,010$44,130$48,400

Other names

Other names for this job

coremaker, hand coremaker, airset caster, airset molder, bond runner, core baker, core drier, core machine operator, core maker, core microarchitect, core oven tender, core paster.

More names for this work

core piler, core rescuer, core setter, core stacker, core sticker, core stripper, dry molder, dry sand molder, foundry finisher, foundry mold assembly and shake out worker, foundry molder, foundry tender, foundry worker, golf club head former, green sand molder, hand former, hand spring former, mold capper, mold closer, mold finisher, mold maker, mold operator, mold tooling tech, mold tooling technician, molder, no bake molder, pattern molder, sand cutter, sand cutter operator, sand molder, sweep molder, wax pattern coater.

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