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Foundry worker

  • Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
  • Langue de travail: Français
  • Heures de travail: 40 hours per week
  • Education:
  • Expérience:

Education

  • Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • or equivalent experience

Work site environment

  • Dusty

Work setting

  • Willing to relocate

Tasks

  • Carefully track the temperature gauges and colour, heating units, furnace flames, etc. to melt metal as per requirements
  • Coat cores with protective materials
  • Make sand moulds using patterns, moulding boxes, sand and hand tools following bench, floor or pit moulding methods
  • Operate ovens to dry moulds
  • Pour molten metal into moulds to produce metal castings
  • Make cores for use in moulds to form holes or void spaces in castings
  • Set up, adjust and operate various casting machines
  • Set up and operate casting machines to cast ferrous or non ferrous metal products
  • Hand ladle molten metal into moulds to produce castings
  • Operate furnaces used to melt metals for moulding and casting

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check

Transportation/travel information

  • Own transportation
  • Own vehicle

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Attention to detail
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Standing for extended periods

Personal suitability

  • Quick learner

Screening questions

  • Are you authorized to work in Canada?
  • Are you available for shift or on-call work?
  • Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
  • Are you willing to relocate for this position?
  • Do you have experience working in this field?
  • Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?
  • Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?

Government programs

  • Recognized employer

Employment terms options

  • Evening

Experience

  • 1 year to less than 2 years

Employment terms options

  • Flexible hours
  • Night
  • Day

Health benefits

  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Paramedical services coverage
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • Bonus
  • Group insurance benefits
  • Pension plan

Long term benefits

  • Maternity and parental benefits

Other benefits

  • Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
  • Free parking available
  • On-site recreation and activities
  • Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
  • Parking available
  • Travel insurance
  • Variable or compressed work week

Support for persons with disabilities

  • Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports persons with disabilities
  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for persons with disabilities
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
  • Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees
  • Assists with immediate settlement needs of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: housing, transportation, storage, childcare, winter clothing, etc.)
  • Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.)
  • Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
  • Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
  • Offers mentorship programs that pair newcomers and/or refugees with experienced employees
  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees

Support for youths

  • Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment
  • Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth

Support for Veterans

  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Veterans
  • Assists with immediate transition needs of Veterans (for example: relocation, housing, etc.)

Support for Indigenous people

  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers

Support for mature workers

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for mature workers
  • Offers phased retirement options that allow mature workers to gradually reduce their workload (for example: flexible or reduced work hours, part time employment, project-based or seasonal work, etc.)
  • Offers phased re-entry options for mature workers who are returning to work after retiring (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities)

Supports for visible minorities

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
  • Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees
  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities