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O*NET detailed work activityBuild production molds
Stays humanHands-on work
7 jobs12 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 Assemble products or work aids, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 12 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Construct wooden models, patterns, templates, full scale mock-ups, and molds for parts of products and production tools.
- Form and assemble slab cores around patterns, and position wire in mold sections to reinforce molds, using hand tools and glue.
- Construct wooden models, templates, full scale mock-ups, jigs, or molds for shaping parts of products.
- Tend machines that bond cope and drag together to form completed shell molds.
- Inspect, clean, and assemble molds before beginning work.
- Assemble, insert, and adjust wires, tubes, cores, fittings, rods, or patterns into molds, using hand tools and depth gauges.
- Construct preliminary models of wax, metal, clay, or plaster, and form sample castings in molds.
- Rotate sweep boards around spindles to make symmetrical molds for convex impressions.
- Construct or form molds for use in casting clay or plaster objects, using plaster, fiberglass, rubber, casting machines, patterns, or flasks.
- Design and fabricate molds, models, and machine accessories, and modify hand tools used to cast metal and jewelry pieces.