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O*NET detailed work activityPlace materials into molds
Stays humanHands-on work
11 jobs16 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 16 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Sift and pack sand into mold sections, core boxes, and pattern contours, using hand or pneumatic ramming tools.
- Drain, transfer, or remove molten metal from furnaces, and place it into molds, using hoists, pumps, or ladles.
- Pat or press layers of saturated mat or cloth into place on molds, using brushes or hands, and smooth out wrinkles and air bubbles with hands or squeegees.
- Position cores into lower sections of molds, and reassemble molds for pouring.
- Spray chopped fiberglass, resins, and catalysts onto prepared molds or dies using pneumatic spray guns with chopper attachments.
- Melt metals or mix plaster, porcelain, or acrylic pastes and pour materials into molds or over frameworks to form dental prostheses or apparatuses.
- Add metal to molds to compensate for shrinkage.
- Pour molten metal into molds, manually or with crane ladles.
- Pour, pack, spread, or press plaster, concrete, or other materials into or around models or molds.
- Pour molten metal alloys or other materials into molds to cast models of jewelry.
- Place glass into dies or molds of presses and control presses to form products, such as glassware components or optical blanks.
- Dump and tamp clay in molds, using tamping tools.
- Pour or load metal or sand into melting pots, furnaces, molds, or hoppers, using shovels, ladles, or machines.
- Place tire casings and tread rubber assemblies in tire molds for the vulcanization process and exert pressure to ensure good adhesion.