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🇬🇧 UKSOC 8115· Process, Plant, Machine and Construction Operatives

Metal making and treating process operatives

Metal making and treating process operatives operate furnaces, ovens and other heating vessels, drawing, rolling, extruding, galvanising, forging and other metal processing equipment to smelt, shape, coat and treat metal and metal products.

Degreaser (metal trades)ElectroplaterFurnaceman (metal trades)Process worker (nickel mfr)Wire drawer
£31,893
median salary
£25,854 – £38,058
12,100
currently employed
22,275
projected 2035
Stable
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