Job Description:

• 1) Tends cast-molding machine that forms candles: Fills machine with liquid wax and turns valve to force steam into jackets to heat molds.

• 2) Turns valve to transfer wax to molds.

• 3) Scrapes flash from molds, using knife, and depresses pedal to eject candles into trays.

• 4) Cuts candlewick ends to specified length, using knife.

• 5) May move lever to force needles, threaded with wicks, through candles or to insert pins into candles, leaving hole for later insertion of wick.

• 6) May imbed decorative bases in butt ends of candles during cooling.

• 7) May insert wax cores in molds for application of final wax coating.