Heat Treating Technician
Quick Facts
Median Salary$44,558
Most Common EducationHigh school or GED
Projected 10-Year Growth-0.71%
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What They Do
A Heat Treating Technician operates machinery used to make metal and plastic parts for products and appliances. Uses furnaces and chemical treatments to shape parts according to exact measurements.
Core Tasks:
- Read production schedules and work orders to determine processing sequences, furnace temperatures, and heat cycle requirements for objects to be heat-treated.
- Record times that parts are removed from furnaces to document that objects have attained specified temperatures for specified times.
- Adjust controls to maintain temperatures and heating times, using thermal instruments and charts, dials and gauges of furnaces, and color of stock in furnaces to make setting determinations.
- Set up and operate or tend machines, such as furnaces, baths, flame-hardening machines, and electronic induction machines, that harden, anneal, and heat-treat metal.
- Start conveyors and open furnace doors to load stock, or signal crane operators to uncover soaking pits and lower ingots into them.
- Remove parts from furnaces after specified times, and air dry or cool parts in water, oil brine, or other baths.
- Move controls to light gas burners and to adjust gas and water flow and flame temperature.
- Instruct new workers in machine operation.
What to expect as a Heat Treating Technician
1Earn a High school or GED Diploma
66% of people achieve this level of education.
2Gain skills and experience
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3Land a job
99 openings for Heat Treating Technicians
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