Drop forging hammer worker

Code 7221.2

Drop forging hammer workers utilise forging machinery and equipment, specifically machined hammers, in order to form ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces to their desired shape. They tend the forging hammers that are dropped onto the workpiece in order to reshape it after the form of the die, which can be closed or open, fully enclosing the workpiece or not.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • quality standards
  • forging processes
  • drop hammer types
  • types of metal

Skills and competences

  • supply machine
  • monitor gauge
  • monitor moving workpiece in a machine
  • monitor automated machines
  • remove scale from metal workpiece
  • ensure equipment availability
  • operate forging tongs
  • tend drop forging hammer
  • troubleshoot
  • remove inadequate workpieces
  • remove processed workpiece
  • perform test run
  • wear appropriate protective gear

Transversal competences

  • ensure correct metal temperature

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences