Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
- Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
- Identify job requirements from specifications, sketches, job sheets or work instructions
- Set up automated thermal cutting machine
- Set up material, including correct procedures for stack cutting and nesting, to minimise waste
- Select appropriate cutting medium and set to specification
- Determine process requirements from specifications or instructions
- Set up machine to specifications
- Establish machine datum to specifications
- Operate automated thermal cutting machine
- Start machine using correct sequence and SOPs
- Use powder marking and/or other tracing devices, as required
- Check final product for compliance with specifications
- Shut down machine following SOPs