Spring maker

Code 8121.6

Spring makers operate a variety of equipment and machinery designed to manufacture different types of spring, including leaf, coil, torsion, clock, tension, and extension spring.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • quality standards
  • types of metal
  • types of spring

Skills and competences

  • supply machine
  • supply machine with appropriate tools
  • monitor moving workpiece in a machine
  • monitor automated machines
  • coil metal
  • ensure equipment availability
  • operate precision measuring equipment
  • tend spring making machine
  • troubleshoot
  • remove inadequate workpieces
  • remove processed workpiece
  • perform test run

Transversal competences

  • safely handle metal wire under tension

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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