Machine Molder Squeeze Salary
in Idaho, United States

• Operates molding machine to form sand molds used in production of metal castings: assembles flask, pattern, and follow board on molding table of machine.
• Sifts sand over pattern, using riddle, and fills flask with sand by opening hopper or using shovel.
• Packs sand around pattern contours, using ramming tool or pneumatic hammer.
• Starts machine that compacts sand in flask to form mold.
• Cuts pouring spout and vents in mold, using sprue cutter and wire.
• Lifts cope half of flask off drag half and removes pattern.
• Cleans cavity of mold, using airhose.
• Positions cores in drag, and assembles cope and drag.
• May set cores in mold cavity.
• May install pattern on bed of machine, and adjust pressure of ram.
• May be designated by machine operated as machine molder, roll-over; machine molder, squeeze; or product molded as molder, fitting.

Machine Molder Squeeze Job Prevalence in Idaho, United States

Job family: Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Job family population: 154,860

Estimated population of Machine Molder Squeeze jobs: 1,855

Rate of error: 1.8%