Job Description:

• 1) Operates auger-press to press clay products, such as sewer pipe, drainpipe, and flue tile from tempered clay: Installs and adjusts extrusion dies, cores, rings, formers, and cutoff knives according to type of product, using handtools, calipers, and ring gauge.

• 2) Moves levers to adjust automatic oilers.

• 3) Starts press that forms, extrudes, and cuts clay to specified shape and length.

• 4) Measures product for conformance to specifications, using scale and calipers.

• 5) May move lever to position extruded tile or pipe column for cutting by DIE TRIPPER.

• 6) May direct DIE TRIPPER to change press dies.

• 7) May be designated according to product pressed as Drain-Tile-Press Operator; Flue-Tile-Press Operator; Sewer-Pipe-Press Operator.