RATE A
The Rate A operations of Schedule G of this Agreement shall apply. (No person other than a journeyman or apprentice may be employed on work classified as Rate A without the prior permission of the Council.)
RATE AA
| 1. | Dismantling and/or assembling and/or replacement and/or adjustment of parts or burners. |
| 2. | Dismantling and/or assembling and/or replacement of parts of die and/or roller heads. |
| 3. | Dismantling and erecting of single purpose woodscrewmaking machine and attachments, including complete setting up and changeover for new batch runs. |
| 4. | Departmental quality assurance supervisor (n.e.s.) including: |
| (a) | Ensuring that quality control standards are being observed. |
| (b) | Evaluation of product defects and/or faults. |
| (c) | All other quality assurance functions and related activities. |
| (d) | Supervising employees employed in quality control and scheduled below Rate AA (n.e.s.) |
| (e) | Training of subordinates. |
| 5. | Heat treatment department supervisor (n.e.s.) who is responsible for the following, inter alia: |
| (a) | Heat treatment and testing of products. |
| (d) | Temperature and belt speed adjustments. |
| (e) | Sample selection and destructive testing as prescribed under the quality control procedures and/or by verbal instruction. |
| (f) | Mechanical and/or metallurgical documentary control. |
| 6. | Replacing and/or changing of pin-type brick furnace frame assembly, excluding furnace bricklaying. |
| 7. | The diagnosis and/or fault analysis of production machines and/or products being produced, including the following: |
| (a) | Production machine setting and assembling of composite tooling and/or dies required within the production section so allocated. |
| (b) | Interpretation of production tool drawings. |
| (c) | Interpretation of component drawings. |
| (d) | Interpretation of engineering standards and the use of precision measuring instruments. |
| (e) | Recording of data as prescribed under quality control procedures and/ or statistical process control. |
| (f) | Supervision of employees employed as setters scheduled below Rate AA (n.e.s.). |
| 8. | Machinist’s work (n.e.s.), viz. shaping, slotting, planing, milling (excluding universal milling), grinding (excluding universal grinding) and the operation of gear cutting and rotary tools, excluding centre lathes (with or without copying and/or profiling attachments), boring mills (vertical, horizontal and turret type, with or without copying and/or profiling attachments), die-sinking machines and universal machining. |
Employees employed on machinist’s work shall be permitted to set up their own work, grind and set their own tools and work to and with precision measuring instruments, including rules, calipers and the like.
RATE B
| 1. | Stationary engine plant attendant responsible for compressors over 7,5 kW installed in process plant. |
| 2. | Quality assurance (n.e.s.) with the use of the required measuring instruments and testing equipment, including the following: |
| (a) | Recording and reporting destructive test results. |
| (b) | Interpretation of component drawings. |
| (c) | Evaluating defects and faults on components. |
| (d) | Work to rewritten and/or verbal measuring procedures. |
| (e) | Ensure that quality control procedures are being adhered to. |
| (f) | Recording of data as prescribed under quality control procedures and/ or statistical process control. |
| (g) | Supervision of employees within quality control department scheduled below Rate B (n.e.s.). |
| 3. | Wire drawing supervisory works (n. e. s.), including setting up and operation of wire drawing machines, including the use of precision measuring instruments. |
RATE C
| 1. | Setting up and/or adjusting on special purpose fastener manufacturing machines, including the following: |
| (a) | Periodic checking and inspection with precision measuring instruments. |
| (b) | Interpretation of component drawings. |
| (c) | Interpretation of engineering standards and the use of precision measuring instruments. |
| (d) | Fault analysis on products being manufactured. |
| (e) | Recording of data as prescribed under quality control procedures and/or statistical process control. |
| (f) | Supervision of employees scheduled below Rate C who form part of the team within the same section. |
| 2. | Inspection and/or testing, during the production process, of products and recording of results so prescribed under quality control procedures and/or statistical process control at the workplace. |
| 3. | Supervising employees on heat treatment work scheduled below Rate C, including the following: |
| (a) | Selection of sample products for testing. |
| (b) | Documentary control as prescribed under quality control. |
| (c) | Checking furnace temperatures. |
| 4. | Supervising employees on galvanising work scheduled below Rate C, including the following: |
| (a) | Selection of sample products for testing. |
| (b) | Documentary control as prescribed under quality control. |
| (c) | Checking tank temperatures. |
RATE D
| 1. | Repetition production welding in jigs and/or parts so formed and/or located as to obviate the need for a jig. |
| 2. | Destructive testing of products and/or raw material including the recording of test results. |
| 3. | Preparation of sample products required for testing by cutting and/or grinding and/or buffing and/or polishing and/or mounting. |
| 4. | Supervising employees on work scheduled at Rate D and below. |
| 5. | Repetitive drill and/or tap sharpening by machine (other than in tool rooms). |
| 6. | Operating power saw (n.e.s.) including marking off with rule and/or tape and including setting of stops. |
| 7. | Crane driving (n.e.s.) floor operated power cranes powered in all three directions and controlled by one man so employed. |
| 8. | Crane driving (n.e.s.) power operated jib cranes and/or cab operated overhead cranes and/or floor operated power cranes, powered in all three directions and controlled by one man so employed in stores and/or stockyard and/or fettling and/or service gantry and/or scrapyard areas. |
| 9. | Machining on repetition work by means of fixtures and/or jigs and/or stops (excluding the requirements of stops for parting off) where the work cycle is manually operated (excluding setting up but including checking with fixed gauges) including the replacing and/or repositioning of throwaway tips only on throwaway tipped tooling (excluding machine tool setting up and/or tool setting and/or adjustment). |
RATE E
| 1. | Operating and/or feeding the following machines: |
| (a) | Nicking and/or profiling machines; |
| (b) | forging and/or trimming and/or punching machines; |
| (c) | upsetting machines, excluding changing the machine over from one component to a similar component and/or the complete setting up of the machine, but including the following: |
| (i) | Affixing and/or removal of dies and/or tooling where there is a positive location. |
| (ii) | Making compensating adjustments only on the employee’s own type of machine. |
| (iii) | Carrying out periodic checks with the use of fixed gauges and adhering to the laid down quality procedures and recording of inspection and/or test results. |
| 2. | Repetition operating or attending of machines adapted for semi-automatic operations where the work cycle is power-driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops, so that manual operations are limited to loading, unloading, setting the machine in motion, stopping and advancing or retracting the tools before and after the power driven cycle takes over (excluding setting up) (n.e.s.), including carrying out periodic checks with the use of fixed gauges and adhering to the laid down quality procedures and recording of inspection and/or test results. Where because of the nature of the operation, the tool may have a tendency to dig in at the final stop the operator may, without further setting of the machine, conclude the machining operation manually, this cut not to exceed 10 mm. |
| 3. | Patrol inspection, including the following: |
| (a) | Use of measuring instruments confined to fixed gauges, and/or testing equipment where the work is of a repetitive nature. |
| (b) | Working to standard written measuring procedures. |
| (c) | Recording of inspection and/or test results. |
| 4. | Supervising employees employed on classes of work scheduled at Rate E and below. |
| 5. | Heat treatment furnace operator (n.e.s.) including making the compensating adjustments on belt speeds, gas flows and/or selection of samples for destructive testing and/or recording of documentation as specified under the quality control procedures. |
| 6. | Raw material stockyard attendant, including encoding of raw materials and the receiving and issuing of stocks. |
RATE F
1. Operating and/or feeding the following machines:
| (a) | Bolt and/or nut washerfacing machines; |
| (b) | rivet assembling machines; |
| (c) | thread forming machines; |
| (d) | screw cutting machines; |
| (e) | slot cutting machines; |
| (f) | combined drawing and cropping machines; |
| (g) | bar cropping machines; |
| (i) | wire drawing machines, |
Excluding changing the machine over from one size of product to another size of product and/or the complete setting up of the machine, but including the following:
| (i) | Affixing and/or removing dies and/or tooling where there is a positive location. |
| (ii) | Performing compensating adjustments only on the employee’s own type of machine. |
| (iii) | Periodic checking with the use of fixed gauges and recording results as laid down by quality control procedures. |
| 2. | Operating woodscrew worming machine, including removal and/or replacement of tools and including compensating adjustments where necessitated by the manufacturing process under instruction of a Rate AA to C employee. |
| 3. | Repetition operation of, or attending machine(s) designed or permanently adapted for a single tool operation, where it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and where the manual operations are limited to loading the workpiece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, starting, operating and/or attending, stopping and unloading the machine(s). |
| 4. | Repetition operation of, or attending semi-automatic machines where the work cycle is power-driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops (excluding setting up). |
‘Semi-automatic machine’ is a machine on which it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and where the manual operations are limited to loading the workpiece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, setting the machine in motion, advancing or retracting tools before and after the power cycle takes over and stopping and unloading the machine.
| 5. | Repetition production machining of fasteners on capstan lathes where the workpiece is held by devices not necessitating any centralising or trueing up but including loading the workpiece between centres. (This operation is limited to a machine not exceeding a 55 mm nominal bore diameter.) |
| 6. | Sharpening of woodscrew and/or nail and/or pointing and/or chaser form cutting tools, using a single-purpose jig-located machine. |
| 7. | Acid neutralising and/or recovery plant attendant. |
| 8. | Cutting of raw material samples for test analysis, from coils and/or bar by gas and/or hacksaw and/or hydraulic cutter. |
| 9. | Picking and/or stacking, including the following: |
| (a) | Stacking and/or removal of finished goods packed in bags and/or boxes. |
| (b) | Driving forklift trucks and/or stacker lift trucks. |
| (c) | Checking and recording warehouse release slips for despatch. |
| 10. | Manual and/or automatic setting and/or gulleting and/or sharpening of slitting saws. |
| 11. | Assistant to compressor plant supervisor including lubricating, stopping and starting of compressors. |
| 12. | Crane driving of non-slewing jib cranes. |
RATE G
| 1. | Operating and/or feeding the following machines: |
| (a) | Thread tapping machines; |
| (b) | frazing and/or pointing machines, excluding changing the machine over from one size of component to another and/or the complete setting up of the machine, but including the following: |
| (i) | Affixing and/or removing tooling where there is a positive location. |
| (ii) | Making compensating adjustments only on the employee’s own type of machine. |
| (iii) | Carrying out periodic checks with the use of fixed gauges and adhering to the laid down quality procedures and recording of inspection and/or test results. |
| 2. | Operating and/or feeding the undermentioned fastener manufacturing machines (excluding setting up and/or running compensating adjustments): |
| (a) | Bolt and/or nut and/or washer facing machines; |
| (b) | combined drawing and cropping machines; |
| (c) | forging and/or trimming and/or punching machines; |
| (d) | nicking and/or profiling machines; |
| (e) | slot cutting machines; |
| (f) | rivet assembling machines; |
| (g) | screw cutting machines; |
| (i) | wire drawing machines. |
The above operation includes the following:
| (i) | The removal and replacement of dies and/or tools (excluding setting). |
| (ii) | Periodic checking of components with the use of fixed gauges and adhering to the laid down quality procedures and recording of inspection and/or test results. |
| 3. | Operating draw bench under instruction of a Rate A to C employee, viz loading the rod, passing the rod through the die, gripping the rod, starting, stopping and unloading the machine. |
| 4. | Operating nail and/or tack and/or wire and/or staple making machines, including cutting off by wire cutters and random checking with fixed gauges. |
| 5. | Operating reducer rolling machine to pre-set rolls. |
| 6. | Operating wire forming and/or serrating machine. |
| 7. | Repetition cutting to stops on reciprocating and/or friction saws and/or band and/or power saws, excluding the setting of stops. |
| 8. | Operating projection and/or resistance and/or spot and/or arc spot welding machine. |
| 9. | Dressing and/or deburring by hand and/or grinding and/or by portable power tool. |
| 10. | Soldering and/or sweating by hand and/or machine and/or induction heating unit. |
| 11. | Operating box stapling machine. |
| 12. | Sand and/or shot and/or hydro and/or grit blasting. |
| 13. | Spraying of enamel and/or paint and/or epoxy powder. |
| 14. | Boiler stoking and/or attending. |
| 15. | Heat treatment furnace operator, including the recording of belt speeds and/ or furnace temperature, excluding any adjustments and/or setting. |
| 16. | Operating special purpose bagging crane operating in three directions limiting the control in two directions by pre-set stops. |
RATE H
| 1. | Assembly of pre-manufactured components from stock requiring no fitting or adjustment, but including deburring. |
| 2. | Attending hot dip coating and/or galvanising bath and/or plating by dipping and/or spraying and/or tumbling under supervision of Rate C employee. |
| 3. | Batch sorting, including the use of fixed gauges. |
| 4. | Bar and/or pin heating. |
| 5. | Butt welding by machine. |
| 6. | Hand riveting of fastener components. |
| 7. | Loading and/or unloading of components into and/or out of heat treatment furnace. |
| 8. | Loading and/or unloading of components into and/or out of centrifuges. |
| 9. | Loading hoppers of automatic machines. |
| 10. | Mass measuring, packing and preparing dispatch containers, including shrink-wrapping. |
| 11. | Putting nuts on bolts. |
| 12. | Removing and replacing dies and/or tools (excluding setting up) under instruction of a Rate C setter. |
| 13. | Repetition bending and/or forming to jigs and/or stops and/or templets. |
| 14. | Repetition cropping and/or cutting off by machine to stops and/or length gauges. |
| 15. | Repetition drilling and/or countersinking to jigs and/or fixtures and/or stops (excluding radial drilling machines). |
| 16. | Dipping in enamel and/or lacquer and/or paint and/or plastisol mixture. |
| 17. | Baling and/or cutting of scrap and/or attending scrap removal. |
| 18. | Operating steam cleaner and/or scarifying floor cleaning unit. |
| 19. | Lubricating and/or greasing. |
| 20. | Preparing and/or stamping and/or affixing product labels and/or name plates. |
| 21. | Cleaning and/or degreasing and/or acid dipping and/or rinsing operations. |
| 22. | Operating tumbling barrels. |
