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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Prepare materials
  2. Determine product requirements
  3. Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
  4. Select and use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
  5. Identify product requirements from specifications, job sheets or work instructions and customer requests
  6. Interpret product requirements
  7. Identify or develop procedure to make mould
  8. Select tooling and materials required to make mould
  9. Liaise with plug maker in relation to suitable plug
  10. Set up equipment/workplace
  11. Develop cutting list for solid materials
  12. Mark out and cut out sheet materials, as required
  13. Calculate resin content
  14. Develop batch scale formulae for resin system
  15. Prepare any non-composite materials to be used
  16. Measure resin components and minimise wastes, as appropriate
  17. Check suitability of plug, including release angles and parting lines
  18. Prepare plug, including cleaning, repairing surface blemishes and applying release systems
  19. Fabricate mould and release mould from plug
  20. Detail mould, including buffing, filling and getting ready for production
  21. Identify routine and non-routine faults and take appropriate remedial action
  22. Recognise typical process and product problem/potential problem and take appropriate action
  23. Perform final verification to meet product requirements
  24. Clean up and maintain equipment and anticipate common problems
  25. Clean and replace tools ready for next use
  26. Undertake any required minor maintenance of tools/equipment
  27. Complete required logs and reports according to SOPs

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Routine faults include one (1) or more of the following:

gel coat sag

slow curing rates

blistering

wrinkles

pinholes

brush marks

poor surface finish

Non-routine faults include one (1) or more of the following:

release agents failure

mould release failure

warping or cracking after moulding

Typical process and product problems include one (1) or more of the following:

structural strength, rigidity and stability of the tooling

dimensional accuracy of the tooling

allowances in the design for shrinkage, deformations and alterations in the process from tooling to mould to finished composite product

placement of flanges, closures, fitments, supports, struts and stiffeners

variations in materials and/or contamination of materials