Job Description:

• 1) Tends kiln that develops color of pigments used in making paints and glass enamels: Moves controls to set automatic heat regulator that maintains specified temperature in kiln.

• 2) Adjusts gas burners in kiln, using handtools, and lights pilot flames and burners.

• 3) Raises kiln bed or signals CALCINE FURNACE LOADER to raise kiln bed, containing pigments, into kiln and to remove bed from kiln after specified time.

• 4) May fill and empty saggers.

• 5) May tend crusher that breaks calcined chunks of pigment into smaller particles.

• 6) May tend auxiliary equipment, such as coaler, conveyor systems, pump, and rotary vacuum filter.