该小组履行以下部分或全部职责：

工具和模具制造商

• 阅读和解释工程图纸和工具、模具、原型或模型的规格
• 准备模板和草图，确定工作流程
• 计算尺寸和公差并设置机床
• 定位、固定、测量和加工金属坯料或铸件以进行加工
• 设置、操作和维护各种传统和计算机数控 (CNC) 机床，以切割、车削、铣削、平面、钻孔、钻孔、研磨或以其他方式将工件成形为规定的尺寸和精加工
• 使用游标、卡尺、千分尺、三坐标测量机 (CMM) 和电子测量设备等精密测量仪器验证机加工零件是否符合规格
• 使用手动工具安装和组装或拆卸零件
• 测试完成的工具、模具、夹具或夹具是否正常运行
• 可能对 CNC 机床进行编程。

金属模具制造商和制版商

• 加工、安装和组装铸件和其他零件，以制作所需形状的精密模型，例如金属模型、芯盒和匹配板
• 加工、安装和组装零件，以制造用于塑料注射成型或其他生产工艺的金属模具和型芯
• 根据蓝图、模型或模板布置、塑造和组装金属、木材、塑料和其他材料的图案
• 可能对 CNC 机床进行编程。

• 通常需要完成中学学业。
• 完成为期四年或五年的工具和模具制造学徒计划，或者结合超过五年的行业工作经验和一些高中、大学或工具和模具制造行业课程，通常需要有资格获得工具和模具贸易认证。
• 纽芬兰和拉布拉多、新斯科舍、爱德华王子岛、新不伦瑞克、魁北克、安大略、马尼托巴和不列颠哥伦比亚省提供工具和模具制造商贸易认证，但属于自愿性质。
• 合格的工具和模具制造商在成功完成省际红印章考试后也可以获得红印章背书。
• 模具制造商通常需要完成为期四年的模具制造学徒或大学课程。
• 在魁北克和安大略省，模具制造商可以获得行业认证，但这是自愿的。
• 制版师通常需要完成制版学徒或大学课程。
• 安大略省提供制版行业认证，但属于自愿性质。

• 随着经验的积累，可能晋升到主管职位。
• 红印章背书允许跨省流动。

• 五金模具及制模主管；工具和模具制造商主管（72010 承包商和主管，机械加工、金属成型、成型和安装行业及相关职业）
• 机械师和机械加工和工具检查员（72100）
• 加工工具操作员（94106）
• 铸造工人（94101）

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

Tool and die makers

• Read and interpret engineering drawings and specifications of tools, dies, prototypes or models
• Prepare templates and sketches, and determine work processes
• Compute dimensions and tolerances and set up machine tools
• Position, secure, measure and work metal stock or castings to lay out for machining
• Set up, operate and maintain a variety of conventional and computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools to cut, turn, mill, plane, drill, bore, grind or otherwise shape workpiece to prescribed dimensions and finish
• Verify machined parts for conformance to specifications using precision measuring instruments such as verniers, callipers, micrometers, coordinate measuring machines (CMM) and electronic measuring devices
• Fit and assemble or disassemble parts using hand tools
• Test completed tools, dies, jigs or fixtures for proper operation
• May program CNC machine tools.

Metal mould makers and patternmakers

• Machine, fit and assemble castings and other parts to make precision models of required shape such as metal patterns, core boxes and match plates
• Machine, fit and assemble parts to make metal moulds and cores for plastic injection moulding, or other production processes
• Lay out, shape and assemble patterns of metal, wood, plastic and other materials from blueprints, models or templates
• May program CNC machine tools.

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Completion of a four- or five-year tool and die making apprenticeship program or a combination of over five years of work experience in the trade and some high school, college or industry courses in tool and die making is usually required to be eligible for tool and die trade certification.
• Tool and die maker trade certification is available, but voluntary, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia.
• Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified tool and die makers upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.
• Mould makers usually require completion of a four-year apprenticeship or college program in mould making.
• Trade certification for mould makers is available, but voluntary, in Quebec and Ontario.
• Patternmakers usually require completion of an apprenticeship or college program in patternmaking.
• Patternmaking trade certification is available, but voluntary, in Ontario.

• Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
• The Red Seal endorsement allows for interprovincial mobility.

• Metal mould and metal patternmakers supervisor; tool and die makers supervisor (in 72010 Contractors and supervisors, machining, metal forming, shaping and erecting trades and related occupations)
• Machinists and machining and tooling inspectors (72100)
• Machining tool operators (94106)
• Foundry workers (94101)