Metal Casting Trade Worker
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Trade · Christchurch, New Zealand · Full-Time · $35 - $41/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored
Here is a straight trade role for experienced foundry hands. A Christchurch manufacturer of marine propulsion systems, supplying more than 120 countries, needs a Metal Casting Trade Worker for its foundry in New Zealand.
The work is sand moulding first, then everything around it, from cores and pouring to knock-out, cleaning and fettling. The company asks for at least five years of practical sand moulding in a production foundry. You will cast Aluminium, AB2 aluminium bronze and Stainless Steel, and wider alloy experience is highly valued.
Shift work is part of the deal. You must take any of these when production needs it, namely 6:00am to 2:30pm, 7:00am to 3:30pm, 2:30pm to 10:30pm or 3:30pm to 11:30pm on Monday to Friday, or 10:30pm to 6:30am or 11:00pm to 7:00am on Sunday to Friday. When your shift pattern changes, you get two weeks' notice as a minimum.
On the visa question, be clear. The employer is accredited for New Zealand's Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) and may support sponsorship for suitably qualified applicants. That is a possibility, and the decision rests with the employer.
Your next practical move is a sharp English CV that proves the five years. Show each foundry, the moulding methods, the alloys and your crane and forklift record. put your foundry proof into a clean CV with Build AI CV.
Key Responsibilities
- Mould in chemically bonded resin sand, both floor and track work
- Turn out cores, assemble them and form the moulds
- Get moulds pour-ready by prepping, closing and clamping them
- Fire up and run the furnaces, then pour Aluminium, AB2 (aluminium bronze alloy) and Stainless Steel
- Break open sand moulds and pull out the castings
- Water-blast the castings clean, then fettle and finish them
- Fix minor faults in castings and on their surfaces
- Inspect every casting by sight and by measurement, flag defects and write down results, using measuring instruments and foundry kit
- Handle the overhead gantry crane (moulds, ladles, castings) and the forklift (materials, moulds, finished castings) with safety first
- Work bandsaws, hand tools and powered foundry machinery safely, by the company's health and safety procedures and quality standards
Requirements & Eligibility
- You hold an NZQA-recognised trade qualification in Metal Casting and Foundry Operations, or an equal one from abroad; if not, you have a minimum of five years' relevant experience in every part of metal casting and foundry operations
- Essential: you have done hands-on sand moulding in a production foundry for a minimum of five years
- Essential: you can show floor and line moulding skills with chemically bonded resin sand processes and/or green sand
- Essential: you can make cores
- You have cast Aluminium, AB2 (aluminium bronze alloy) and/or Stainless Steel; having cast all three is highly desirable
- You know knock-out and fettling work
- You can inspect castings, confirm dimensions and pick out defects
- You read basic measuring instruments with confidence
- You run bandsaws and other workshop machines, and you handle hand tools and powered foundry machinery safely
- You have a proven, safe record on overhead gantry cranes and on forklifts
- You have worked with lost wax casting investment processes
- You fit into a multicultural team
- You are fit enough for punishing manual work using sledgehammers, disc grinders, water-blasting equipment and other hand and powered tools
- You can stay safe around molten metal and radiant heat as high as 1600°C
- Your spoken and written English lets you follow safety rules, job instructions, technical papers and everyday communication on site
- You push yourself, meeting production targets with minimal supervision
- You deliver quality workmanship inside the required timeframes
- You fully understand foundry health and safety requirements and stick to them
- You have the legal right to work in New Zealand, or eligibility to obtain a work visa
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