Job Description:

• 1) Tends furnace that heats scrapped small arms ammunition to explode powder and reclaim lead and brass: Pulls trucks of tote boxes from storage area to furnace hoppers.

• 2) Scoops or dumps primers or loaded cartridges into hopper.

• 3) Shovels exploded primers from furnace floor or skims cartridge and bullet cases from surface of molten lead, using skimming tool, and deposits them in containers, according to type of metal.

• 4) Ladles molten lead from furnace pot into pig molds.

• 5) Carries cooled pigs to storage area and stacks them on skids.

• 6) May burn waste powder in open pit by dumping it onto wood fire, using remote-control trolley.