Job Description:

• 1) Operates electric, gas, or oil-fired furnace to braze or solder metal components, as specified by work orders, sketches, and charts: Turns knobs and observes recording instruments, gauges, and pyrometer to maintain furnace and cooling chamber temperature specified for type of metal and brazing or soldering alloy used.

• 2) Aligns and clamps together components or positions components in holding fixtures under specified pressure.

• 3) Brushes on flux and places wire or preformed pieces of brazing or soldering alloy over joints.

• 4) Places workpieces into furnace or onto conveyor, or into containers, such as baskets, trays, or retorts.

• 5) Loads containers into furnace or onto furnace conveyor, manually or by hoist.

• 6) Transfers workpieces from furnace to cooling chamber, using pole, hook, or by turning cranks.

• 7) May install fixtures into furnace or onto conveyor, using rule, square, template, and handtools.

• 8) May operate furnace which drops brazed products into quenching tank.

• 9) May solder metals, such as tin, zinc, brass, and nickel, to strips of gold or silver preparatory to making jewelry articles and be designated Rolled-Gold Plater.