How to become a Metal Production Process Controller
Official title: Metal Production Process Controllers
Operates and monitors multi-function process control machinery and equipment that controls metal converting and refining furnaces, rolling mills, and heat treatment or hot extrusion equipment.
Main tasks
- Monitor metal production processes from a central control room through control panels, computer terminals or other control systems
- Run multi-function process control machinery to grind, filter, melt, roast, treat, refine or otherwise process metal
- Watch computer printouts, video monitoring and metal thickness to check process conditions and make adjustments
Ways in
- Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: chemical engineering and processes (0711). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 11, two-year technical bachelor's (二技) 1. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Demand for Science and engineering jobs is projected at about 952,000 in 2024 and about 1,072,000 in 2030. (+12.6%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Related jobs
- Other Process Control Technicians
- Power Production Plant Operators
- Incinerator,Water Treatment and Related Plant Operators
- Chemical Processing Plant Controllers
- Petroleum and Natural Gas Refining Plant Operators
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Questions people ask
How do I become a Metal Production Process Controller?
Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme.
Is a Metal Production Process Controller a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 12.6% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of a Metal Production Process Controller?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026