High opportunity occupation
About this job
Machine operators in mineral and metal processing run single-function machines or machinery that are part of a larger production to process mineral ore and metal products.
People in this career group work in mineral ore and metal processing plants such as copper, lead and zinc refineries. They also work in uranium processing plants, steel mills, aluminum plants, precious metal refineries and cement processing plants.
Common job titles
- alumina clarifier / recovery
- aluminum equipment
- annealer
- anode / anode caster
- attendant, agglomerating
- attendant, discharge door / induration
- attendant, spiral conveyor
- baghouse
- bar-straightening machine
- blender, diamond powder
- brine maker
- cadmium equipment
- calciner, gypsum
- casting machine
- cathode-stripping machine
- cement and concrete equipment
- charging machine
- classifier
- coal breaker / screener / washer
- coiler
- condenser
- continuous drossing
- cooling bed
- copper billet piercing mill
- crusher and blender
- dewatering equipment
- digester
- dryer
- dryer, asbestos / asbestos screen tender
- electrolytic cleaner
- electrostatic separator
- extrusion press
- finisher - primary metal processing
- foil-winding machine
- fume scrubber
- hardener / case hardener
- heater, coke oven / rivet heater
- heat-treat furnace / kettle / kiln
- induction machine
- ingot finishing
- jumbo casting
- ladle / ladle pourer
- larry car
- leaching
- lead equipment
- magnetic separator
- manipulator machine
- metal extrusion press / hardener
- mica equipment
- milling machine
- molten metal mixer
- molybdenum flotation / leaching
- opperator, dust pump (slag furnace)
- ore crusher
- phosphate granulator
- pickler / pickle line
- pig iron equipment
- pointer
- pot liner / tender
- pourer, crane ladle / crucible
- processor, dental amalgam
- purification - zinc oxide leach
- quenching car
- recovery equipment
- reeling machine
- refiner, mint precious metal
- residue filter
- rod mill / rod drawer
- roll table / roller plate mill
- roller, tandem / temper mill
- salt machinery
- scalehouse - zinc melting
- scrap metal shredder / remelter
- scrubber operator
- seamless steel billet piercer
- seamless tube roller
- setter, pipe and tube roll
- sheet rougher
- sink-float equipment
- sintering machine
- slime recovery / slime treater
- slurry equipment
- stack dust leach - zinc casting
- steel pourer / roller
- straightening machine
- stretcher-leveller
- sulphur control
- tankhouse equipment
- tapper, blast furnace / kettle
- tender, amalgamation
- tender, coke screen / coke blender
- tender, cone
- tender, Cottrell
- tender, flotation cell
- tender, flux-mixing machine
- tender, grinder / classifier / floatation
- tender, heavy media separation
- tender, hot strip finishing / roughing mill
- tender, pan
- tender, peat moss dehydrator
- tender, pellet press / pellet segregator
- tender, precipitator
- tender, reagent
- tender, tailings thickener
- tender, wet plant recovery equipment
- transfer bed
- tube rolling mill
- waste treatment
- wire drawing machine
- zinc cell / zinc pressure leach
- alumina clarifier / recovery
- aluminum equipment
- annealer
- anode / anode caster
- attendant, agglomerating
- attendant, discharge door / induration
- attendant, spiral conveyor
- baghouse
- bar-straightening machine
- blender, diamond powder
- brine maker
- cadmium equipment
- calciner, gypsum
- casting machine
- cathode-stripping machine
- cement and concrete equipment
- charging machine
- classifier
- coal breaker / screener / washer
- coiler
- condenser
- continuous drossing
- cooling bed
- copper billet piercing mill
- crusher and blender
- dewatering equipment
- digester
- dryer
- dryer, asbestos / asbestos screen tender
- electrolytic cleaner
- electrostatic separator
- extrusion press
- finisher - primary metal processing
- foil-winding machine
- fume scrubber
- hardener / case hardener
- heater, coke oven / rivet heater
- heat-treat furnace / kettle / kiln
- induction machine
- ingot finishing
- jumbo casting
- ladle / ladle pourer
- larry car
- leaching
- lead equipment
- magnetic separator
- manipulator machine
- metal extrusion press / hardener
- mica equipment
- milling machine
- molten metal mixer
- molybdenum flotation / leaching
- opperator, dust pump (slag furnace)
- ore crusher
- phosphate granulator
- pickler / pickle line
- pig iron equipment
- pointer
- pot liner / tender
- pourer, crane ladle / crucible
- processor, dental amalgam
- purification - zinc oxide leach
- quenching car
- recovery equipment
- reeling machine
- refiner, mint precious metal
- residue filter
- rod mill / rod drawer
- roll table / roller plate mill
- roller, tandem / temper mill
- salt machinery
- scalehouse - zinc melting
- scrap metal shredder / remelter
- scrubber operator
- seamless steel billet piercer
- seamless tube roller
- setter, pipe and tube roll
- sheet rougher
- sink-float equipment
- sintering machine
- slime recovery / slime treater
- slurry equipment
- stack dust leach - zinc casting
- steel pourer / roller
- straightening machine
- stretcher-leveller
- sulphur control
- tankhouse equipment
- tapper, blast furnace / kettle
- tender, amalgamation
- tender, coke screen / coke blender
- tender, cone
- tender, Cottrell
- tender, flotation cell
- tender, flux-mixing machine
- tender, grinder / classifier / floatation
- tender, heavy media separation
- tender, hot strip finishing / roughing mill
- tender, pan
- tender, peat moss dehydrator
- tender, pellet press / pellet segregator
- tender, precipitator
- tender, reagent
- tender, tailings thickener
- tender, wet plant recovery equipment
- transfer bed
- tube rolling mill
- waste treatment
- wire drawing machine
- zinc cell / zinc pressure leach
Earnings
Annual provincial median salary
$75,082
Source:
2020 Job Bank Wage data
Provincial hourly rate
Source: 2020 Job Bank Wage Report