As of June 2026, Pourers and Casters, Metal has an AI-exposure score of 40/100 (Moderate exposure) on the AI-Safe Careers index, blending O*NET tasks, the Anthropic Economic Index, the Penn/OpenAI study, and BLS data. This is an estimate of task exposure, not a prediction of job loss.

AI Exposure Score for

Pourers and Casters, Metal

40/100
Moderate exposure
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More exposed than 10% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$51,810. About 600 projected openings a year (BLS 2024–34 — growth plus replacement).

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Your tasks, by AI exposure

Automatable

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (81%).

Augmentable
  • Collect samples, or signal workers to sample metal for analysis.
  • Stencil identifying information on ingots and pigs, using special hand tools.
  • Examine molds to ensure they are clean, smooth, and properly coated.
  • Pull levers to lift ladle stoppers and to allow molten steel to flow into ingot molds to specified heights.
  • Read temperature gauges and observe color changes, adjusting furnace flames, torches, or electrical heating units as necessary to melt metal to specifications.
  • Position equipment such as ladles, grinding wheels, pouring nozzles, or crucibles, or signal other workers to position equipment.
  • Remove solidified steel or slag from pouring nozzles, using long bars or oxygen burners.
  • Load specified amounts of metal and flux into furnaces or clay crucibles.
  • Turn valves to circulate water through cores, or spray water on filled molds to cool and solidify metal.
  • Repair and maintain metal forms and equipment, using hand tools, sledges, and bars.
  • Pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds and forms to produce ingots or other castings, using ladles or hand-controlled mechanisms.
  • Transport metal ingots to storage areas, using forklifts.
  • Remove metal ingots or cores from molds, using hand tools, cranes, and chain hoists.
Durable
  • Skim slag or remove excess metal from ingots or equipment, using hand tools, strainers, rakes, or burners, collecting scrap for recycling.
  • Add metal to molds to compensate for shrinkage.
  • Assemble and embed cores in casting frames, using hand tools and equipment.

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