Make or form wax or sand cores or molds used in the production of metal castings in foundries.

Other names for Foundry Mold and Coremakers: Core Baker, Core Drier, Core Machine Operator, Core Maker, Core Oven Tender, Core Paster, Core Piler, Core Setter, Core Stacker, Core Sticker, Core Stripper, Coremaker Apprentice, Dipper, Dry Molder, Dry Sand Molder, Founder, Foundry Finisher, Foundry Mold Assembly and Shake-Out Worker, Foundry Tender, Foundry Worker, Golf Club Head Former, Hand Coremaker, Hand Former, Hand Spring Former, Journeyman Molder, Mold Capper, Mold Closer, Mold Finisher, Mold Maker, Molder, Molder Apprentice, No Bake Molder, Pattern Molder, Roll Hand, Sand Cutter, Sand Cutter Operator, Sand Molder, Shell Core Operator, Shell Mold Operator, Sweep Molder, Wax Pattern Coater,

• Clean and smooth molds, cores, and core boxes, and repair surface imperfections.
• Move and position workpieces such as mold sections, patterns, and bottom boards, using cranes, or signal others to move workpieces.
• Sprinkle or spray parting agents onto patterns and mold sections to facilitate removal of patterns from molds.
• Position patterns inside mold sections and clamp sections together.
• Position cores into lower sections of molds, and reassemble molds for pouring.
• Sift and pack sand into mold sections, core boxes, and pattern contours, using hand or pneumatic ramming tools.
• Tend machines that bond cope and drag together to form completed shell molds.
• Cut spouts, runner holes, and sprue holes into molds.
• Lift upper mold sections from lower sections and remove molded patterns.
• Form and assemble slab cores around patterns and position wire in mold sections to reinforce molds, using hand tools and glue.
• Pour molten metal into molds, manually or using crane ladles.
• Rotate sweep boards around spindles in order to make symmetrical molds for convex impressions.
• Operate ovens or furnaces to bake cores or to melt, skim, and flux metal.