Metal-Refining Furnace Operator
- Perfect for those who love working with high-tech machinery and precision processes.
- Essential role in producing high-quality metals for construction and manufacturing.
- Unique chance to work with diverse furnace types and cutting-edge refining techniques.
💰 Earn $40K-$64K
📚 High School Diploma or GED
Overview
Operate or tend furnaces, such as gas, oil, coal, electric-arc or electric induction, open-hearth, or oxygen furnaces, to melt and refine metal before casting or to produce specified types of steel.Scoop
High School Diploma or GED
Shaky (Decreasing by 1-5%)
Day-to-Day
- Regulate supplies of fuel and air, or control flow of electric current and water coolant to heat furnaces and adjust temperatures.
- Draw smelted metal samples from furnaces or kettles for analysis, and calculate types and amounts of materials needed to ensure that materials meet specifications.
- Weigh materials to be charged into furnaces, using scales.
- Record production data, and maintain production logs.
- Observe air and temperature gauges or metal color and fluidity, and turn fuel valves or adjust controls to maintain required temperatures.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Using data or completing tasks
- Working with my hands
- Thinking and problem solving
You are skilled in 💫
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Operations Monitoring
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Monitoring
You value 🙏
- Having support
- Job security
- Having freedom
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Metal-Refining Furnace Operator
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