Metal Casting Trade Worker
Visa sponsorship
Trade · Christchurch, New Zealand · Full-Time · $35 - $41/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored
Moulders with hands-on production foundry experience are wanted for the foundry team at a Christchurch manufacturing site whose marine propulsion products reach more than 120 countries. Core skill is sand moulding, with a minimum of five years in a production foundry, and the metals cast are Aluminium, AB2 (aluminium bronze alloy) and Stainless Steel.
Shift availability matters. Roles are Monday to Friday on 6:00am – 2:30pm, 7:00am – 3:30pm, 2:30pm – 10:30pm or 3:30pm – 11:30pm, and Sunday to Friday on 10:30pm – 6:30am or 11:00pm – 7:00am, as operations require, with at least two weeks' notice before a shift pattern changes.
As an Accredited Employer, the company may support visa applications for suitably qualified applicants, and sponsorship is part of that picture.
Ugandan foundry and workshop tradespeople, including those with DIT certificates, should name the moulding processes and alloys they know on the CV. Use Build AI CV for a clean moulder CV.
Key Responsibilities
- Floor and track moulding with resin sand (chemically bonded)
- Make moulds and cores, including core assembly
- Prepare, close and clamp moulds, ready to pour
- Pour metal and operate foundry furnaces, casting in Aluminium, AB2 (aluminium bronze alloy) and Stainless Steel
- Knock out moulds and remove castings
- Water blast, clean, fettle and finish castings
- Repair minor and surface defects in castings
- Check castings by eye and by measurement, identify defects and log the inspection results
- Use measuring instruments and foundry equipment
- Run overhead gantry cranes and forklifts safely to move moulds, ladles, castings and materials
- Use bandsaws, hand tools and powered machinery safely
- Follow the company's health and safety procedures and quality standards
Requirements & Eligibility
- Either a trade qualification in Metal Casting and Foundry Operations recognised by NZQA, or an equivalent qualification from overseas, or a minimum of five years of relevant metal casting and foundry experience
- Essential: five or more years as a sand moulder in a production foundry (a minimum)
- Essential: confident floor and line moulding using resin sand (chemically bonded) processes and/or green sand
- Essential: core making
- Aluminium, AB2 (aluminium bronze alloy) and/or Stainless Steel casting experience; having done all three is highly desirable
- Knock-out and fettling work
- Casting inspection, dimensional checks and spotting defects
- Basic measuring instruments
- Bandsaws and other workshop equipment
- Safe use of hand tools and powered foundry machinery
- Demonstrated safe operation of overhead gantry cranes and forklifts
- Lost wax casting investment experience
- Works well in a multicultural team
- Fit for demanding manual work using sledgehammers, disc grinders, water-blasting equipment and other tools, with molten metal and radiant heat of up to 1600°C
- Good written and verbal English for safety procedures, work instructions, technical documents and everyday workplace communication
- Self-motivated, able to work with minimal supervision and meet production targets, with quality workmanship, within required timeframes
- Thorough commitment to foundry health and safety
- The legal right to work in New Zealand, or eligibility to obtain a work visa
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