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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Determine job requirements
  2. Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
  3. Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
  4. Identify job requirements from specifications, sketches, job sheets or work instructions
  5. Set up automated thermal cutting machine
  6. Set up material, including correct procedures for stack cutting and nesting, to minimise waste
  7. Select appropriate cutting medium and set to specification
  8. Determine process requirements from specifications or instructions
  9. Set up machine to specifications
  10. Establish machine datum to specifications
  11. Operate automated thermal cutting machine
  12. Start machine using correct sequence and SOPs
  13. Use powder marking and/or other tracing devices, as required
  14. Check final product for compliance with specifications
  15. Shut down machine following SOPs

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Material includes one (1) or more of the following

ferrous

non-ferrous

Cutting medium includes one (1) or more of the following:

fuel gases

oxy acetylene

plasma arc

laser

Machine includes one (1) or more of the following:

single head machines

multi-headed machines

numerically controlled (NC) driven equipment

Where NC machines are used, set up machine to specifications includes one (1) or more of the following:

selecting programs according to predetermined instructions

loading programs according to predetermined instructions

Tracing devices include one (1) or more of the following:

powder marking and magnetic

photoelectric tracing devices

Gas handling equipment includes the following:

gas cylinders

hoses

blowpipes

tips and nozzles

regulators

flashback arrestors