Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
- Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
- Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
- Inspect and prepare patterns and cores
- Select appropriate parting agent and apply to polymer specifications
- Manufacture moulds, patterns and tooling aids
- Mix polymer and hardener to correct ratios and specifications using standard safety and operating procedures
- Apply polymer to specification and use predetermined methods, ensuring that air is not entrapped in application, excessive heat is not generated and delamination does not occur in final use
- Strip, inspect, clean and repair pattern/core box as required
- Machine and finish faces of polymer pattern to specifications
- Apply appropriate method of location to patterns and core boxes
- Check polymer tooling for conformance to specifications as required