Blacksmith jobs in Finland
Blacksmiths heat metal, usually steel, in a forge and shape it with a hammer, chisel, and an anvil. Contemporarily, they predominantly create artisanal metal products, including ornamental work, as well as horse shoes, one of the sole metal fabricating processes that has not been industrialised.
Blacksmith - Which skills are essential?
Monitor and govern the pyrometer to control the furnace temperature.
Join together pieces of metal using soldering and welding materials.
Operate welding equipment in a safe manner; use welding techniques such as shielded metal arc welding or flux-cored arc welding.
Operate or tend furnaces, such as gas, oil, coal, electric-arc or electric induction, open-hearth, or oxygen furnaces, to melt and refine metal before casting, to produce specified types of steel, or to finish other materials such as cokes. Set furnace controls to regulate temperatures and heating time.
Apply techniques and use technologies in relation to the various smithing processes, including sculpting, forging, upsetting, heat treating, and finishing.
Wear relevant and necessary protective gear, such as protective goggles or other eye protection, hard hats, safety gloves.
Load materials in furnace with correct positioning, fastening and levelling when needed.
Measure the amounts of steel or other metals to be heated. Take decisions on the amount of heat to be used, the duration of the heating, and other variables in the process based on the measurement.
Work with drills, air chisels, power hammers, hydraulic presses, grinders, and others to create (semi-)hand-made metal products by performing blacksmithing operations.
Use heating machinery to bake filled-up moulds or to melt steel, metal and other materials.
Work with hammers, chisels, anvils, tongs, vises, forges, and others to create hand-made metal products by performing blacksmithing operations.
Qualities, specifications, applications and reactions to different fabricating processes of various types of metal, such as steel, aluminium, brass, copper and others.
The various processes in the metalforming practices of forging, such as swaging, open-die forging, automatic hot forging, cogging, impression-die forging, roll forging, upsetting, press forging, and others.
Forge pieces of metal over an anvil using the appropriate hand tools and heating equipment.
Ensure the necessary, usually constant, temperature of processed metal workpieces during metal fabrication processes.
Heat steel and metals in fire; adjust and regulate heat controls to reach appropriate pouring temperature.
The metalworking process of forging whilst the hot metal is right above its recrystallisation temperature after casting and being solidified.
Provide damage and risk prevention in a furnace or a smelter.
Select optimal metal used for metal joining purposes, such as zinc, lead or copper metals, specifically for welding, soldering or brazing practices.
Blacksmith - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Various processing methods on non-ferrous metals and alloys such as copper, zinc and aluminium.
Supply the machine with the necessary tools and items for a particular production purpose.
Insert mould structures using the appropriate hand tools.
Mark or engrave designs on metal pieces or pieces of jewellery, closely following design specifications.
Oversee the data presented by a gauge concerning the measurement of pressure, temperature, thickness of a material, and others.
Apply preparatory treatment, through mechanical or chemical processes, to the workpiece preceding the main operation.
Understand design drawings detailing the design of products, tools, and engineering systems.
Open mould and safely remove the finished cast from within.
Measure the size of a processed part when checking and marking it to check if it is up to standard by use of two and three dimensional precision measuring equipment such as a caliper, a micrometer, and a measuring gauge.
Various processing methods on iron and iron-containing alloys such as steel, stainless steel and pig iron.
Work on castings with the necessary sense of timing in regards to quality, for example when measuring how long moulds must rest before they are used in further casting processes.
Fill up moulds with appropriate materials and ingredient mixes.
Ensure that the necessary equipment is provided, ready and available for use before start of procedures.
Inspect and mark parts of the workpiece to indicate how they will fit into the finished product.
Comply with precision standards specific to an organisation or product in metalworking, involved in processes such as engraving, precise cutting, welding.
The metalworking process of forging whilst hot metal is right below its recrystallisation temperature, being cooled and solidified after casting.
Have knowledge of various types of coating, providing a workpiece with one or more finishing layers of resins, sugars, powders, inactive and insoluable fillers, waxes, gums, plasticisers, colouring materials, lacquer, and others.
Operate cutting and measuring instruments in order to cut/shape pieces of metal into given dimensions.
Recognise the symptoms of metal showing oxidation reactions with the environment resulting in rusting, copper pitting, stress cracking, and others, and estimate the rate of corrosion.
The qualities and applications of frit dust, sawdust, coal dust, and others, in the process of hot forging when strewn into dies to ensure the metal workpiece does not stick to the die.
Inspect and smooth burred surfaces of steel and metal parts.
Metal processes linked to the different types of metal, such as casting processes, heat treatment processes, repair processes and other metal manufacturing processes.
The manufacture of metal items that can be attached to a door in order to support its function and appearance. The manufacture of padlocks, locks, keys, hinges and the like, and hardware for buildings, furniture, vehicles etc.
Remove the accumulated scale, or metal 'flakes', on the surface of the metal workpiece caused by oxidation after removal from the furnace by spraying it with an oil-based liquid that will cause it to flake off during the forging process.
Register, follow-up, solve and respond to customer requests, complaints and after-sales services.
The various practices used in the casting of metal, plastics and other cast materials, including mould filling, solidification, cooling, and others, all relating to varying approaches in case of different types of material.
Produce goods designed and created to fit the specific needs or request of a customer.
The manufacture of knives and cutting blades for machines or for mechanical appliances, hand tools such as pliers, screwdrivers etc. The manufacture of non-power-driven agricultural hand tools, saws and saw blades, including circular saw blades and chainsaw blades. The manufacture of interchangeable tools for hand tools, whether or not power-operated, or for machine tools: drills, punches, milling cutters etc. The manufacture of press tools, moulding boxes and moulds (except ingot moulds), vices and clamps, and blacksmiths’ tools: forges, anvils etc.
Various processing methods on precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum.