Career
Engineering Production Systems Workers
Engineering
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Career stats
Weekly pay
$1,520
Prospects
Low
Employed in Australia
23,900
Growth
Decline
Ideal for
Overview
Engineering Production Systems Workers perform a range of production process tasks to refine and treat metals and mineral ore, fire ceramics, and operate plant to produce and finish metal products such as rods, tubing and structural shapes, and moulds for casting.
Job Titles
Job Tasks
This occupation may include associated occupations with varying tasks.
- interpreting engineering production drawings
- setting up operating and adjusting production plant to shape metal stock and castings and cut sheet metal
- operating welding and electroplating plant
- operating furnaces and quenching plant to smelt and change the structure of metals
- using kilns and ovens to fire ceramics
- processing mineral ore and operating metal rolling plant
- casting molten metal and operating plant to draw metal wire through dies
- operating computer-controlled production plant
Training & Qualifications
Vocational education & training (VET)
- Certificate II in Engineering Studies
Short Courses Available
- Certificate III in Resource Processing
Industry
Engineering
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