94101 Foundry workers

What this occupation covers

Foundry workers make foundry moulds and cores by hand or machine, cast molten metal, and operate furnaces in the foundry industry. They are employed by metal foundries and foundry departments of metal products manufacturing companies.

Official main duties

The NOC profile lists 8 main duties for this code.

• Make and repair sand moulds using patterns, moulding boxes, sand and hand tools following bench, floor or pit moulding methods
• Operate ovens to dry moulds
• Make cores for use inside moulds to form holes or void spaces in castings using core boxes, sand, hammer and wire or other reinforcing material
• Coat cores with protective materials and bake cores in oven
• Set up, adjust and operate various mouldmaking and coremaking machines to make sand and ceramics moulds and cores
• May pour molten metal into moulds to produce metal castings.
• Set up and operate various casting machines to cast ferrous and non-ferrous metal products; hand ladle and pour molten metal into moulds to produce castings.
• Operate furnaces used to melt metals for moulding and casting.

Do not copy these lines into your reference letter. The letter has to describe what you actually did, in your employer’s words. DUTYPROOF flags wording lifted from the NOC as something to review, and an officer reading a letter that mirrors the NOC reads it the same way.

What DUTYPROOF screens for

This is DUTYPROOF’s screening threshold, not IRCC’s decision. For this NOC, screening requires at least 2 of its 8 official duties to be evidenced in your own words, plus the required letter elements. IRCC asks that you performed the actions in the occupation’s lead statement and a substantial number of its main duties — so treat the duty coverage as the number that matters, not the badge.

Codes this one is confused with

The NOC profile names these itself. Choosing the wrong code of a look-alike pair is the most common way genuine work experience fails to establish eligibility.

• 93100 Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing
• 95100 Labourers in mineral and metal processing
• 92010 Supervisors, mineral and metal processing

Excluded from this code

• Continuous casting operator - primary metal processing (See 93100 Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing)
• Foundry labourer (See 95100 Labourers in mineral and metal processing)
• Foundry supervisor (See 92010 Supervisors, mineral and metal processing)
• Furnace operator - primary metal and mineral products processing (See 93100 Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing)

Job titles filed under this code

A title on this list does not by itself put your experience in this code — the duties in your letter decide that.

ammunition caster - foundry · apprentice moulder - foundry · automatic casting machine operator - foundry · automatic moulding machine operator - foundry · bench coremaker - foundry · bench moulder - foundry · brass caster · bullet moulder - foundry · casting machine operator - foundry · centrifugal casting machine tender - foundry · ceramic mouldmaker - foundry · channel furnace operator - foundry · cope and drag pinlift operator - foundry · copper caster - foundry · core extruder - foundry · core machine operator - foundry · core setter - foundry · coremaking machine operator - foundry · core-sand-mixer - foundry · cupola furnace operator - foundry · custom moulder - foundry · die-casting machine operator · die-casting machine setter - foundry · die-casting machine set-up man/woman - foundry

Employment requirements

• Completion of secondary school is required.
• Several weeks of on-the-job training are required.