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Metal Manufacturing Process Control Technician
OFO Code: 313501
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 313501
- Occupation
- Metal Manufacturing Process Control Technician
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- TECHNICIANS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 3135 · Metal Production Process Controllers
Official description
Metal production process controllers operate and monitor multi-function process control machinery and equipment to control the processing of metal converting and refining furnaces, metal-rolling mills, metal heat-treating, or metal-extrusion plant.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Melting and Refinery Process Controller, Process Controller, Central Control Caster, Metal Processing Control Operator, Casting Process Controller, Blast Furnace Operator, Rolling Mill Control Operator, Metal Finishing Process Controller, Electrolysis Process Controller, Rolling Process Controller, material preparation
- Starting up and shutting down the production system in cases of emergency or as required by schedule
- Maintaining shift log of production and other data and preparing production and other reports
- Providing and organising training for members of production crew
- Operating multi-function central process control machinery to grind, separate, filter, melt, roast, treat, refine or otherwise process metals
- Coordinating and monitoring the operation of a particular aspect of metal processing production through control panels, computer terminals or other control systems, usually from a central control room
- Observing computer printouts, video monitors and gauges to verify specified processing conditions and to make necessary adjustments
- Coordinating and supervising production crew such as machine and process operators, assistants and helpers
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.