Upsetting machine operator

Code 7223.25

Upsetting machine operators set up and tend upsetting machines, primarily crank presses, designed to form through forging processes metal workpieces, usually wires, rods, or bars, into their desired shape by having split dies with mulitiple cavities compress the workpieces' length and hereby increasing their diameter.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • upsetting machine parts
  • quality standards
  • forging processes
  • types of metal
  • types of upsetting machines

Skills and competences

  • supply machine
  • monitor moving workpiece in a machine
  • ensure equipment availability
  • tend upsetting machine
  • troubleshoot
  • remove inadequate workpieces
  • remove processed workpiece
  • perform test run
  • hold metal work piece in machine
  • 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