How do they match: Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

  • Signal forklift operators to deposit or extract containers of parts into and from furnaces and quenching rinse tanks.
  • Adjust controls to maintain temperatures and heating times, using thermal instruments and charts, dials and gauges of furnaces, and color of stock in furnaces to make setting determinations.
  • Place completed workpieces on conveyors, using cold rods, tongs, or chain hoists, or signal crane operators to transport them to subsequent stations.
  • Start conveyors and open furnace doors to load stock, or signal crane operators to uncover soaking pits and lower ingots into them.

  • Signal others to coordinate work activities.