Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates series of machines to mix ingredients, extrude clay mixture, and to cut extruded column into brick and tile products: Turns valves to feed and regulate flow of ingredients into mixing machine and to create vacuum in de-airing machine.

• 2) Installs die, core, rings, and former in extrusion head, using handtools and measuring instruments.

• 3) Sets controls on automatic cutoff knives to cut clay column according to job order specifications.

• 4) Starts machinery.

• 5) Examines extruded product to detect variations from specified hardness, and turns valves to feed water and oil into pug mill to correct consistency of clay.

• 6) Replaces knives, reamers, and finishers in automatic finishing units.

• 7) Records production.

• 8) May operate individual machine and be designated Auger-Press Operator; Cutter Operator, Brick; Cutter Operator, Tile; Pug Mill Operator.