Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

A typical week, in the words of people in the job

1. 01Instruct new workers in machine operation.
2. 02Examine parts to ensure metal shades and colors conform to specifications, using knowledge of metal heat-treating.
3. 03Adjust 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.
4. 04Repair, replace, and maintain furnace equipment as needed, using hand tools.
5. 05Position stock in furnaces, using tongs, chain hoists, or pry bars.
6. 06Reduce heat when processing is complete to allow parts to cool in furnaces or machinery.
7. 07Test parts for hardness, using hardness testing equipment, or by examining and feeling samples.
8. 08Stamp heat-treatment identification marks on parts, using hammers and punches.
9. 09Record times that parts are removed from furnaces to document that objects have attained specified temperatures for specified times.
10. 10Set and adjust speeds of reels and conveyors for prescribed time cycles to pass parts through continuous furnaces.
11. 11Load parts into containers and place containers on conveyors to be inserted into furnaces, or insert parts into furnaces.
12. 12Signal forklift operators to deposit or extract containers of parts into and from furnaces and quenching rinse tanks.

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