Job Description:

• 1) Casts concrete sections of electrolytic cells, such as tops, bottoms, collars, brine traps, and partitions, using handtools and power tools, hoist, and concrete mixer: Assembles iron molds, using hoist, and bolts sections together, using handtools.

• 2) Washes and scrapes molds to remove dirt, using water hose and hand scraper, and brushes surface of molds with grease, oil, or tallow, to facilitate removal of molds from concrete.

• 3) Shovels specified amounts of cement, rock, sand, insulating material, and water into concrete mixer, and starts machine to mix concrete to specified consistency.

• 4) Shovels or dumps concrete into mold and tamps concrete, using power vibrator.

• 5) Inserts reinforcing steel members in concrete.

• 6) Tests hardness of concrete by touch, and removes molds, using wrenches and hoist.

• 7) Finishes surface of section, using trowel or portable grinder, and transfers section to curing tank for water or tar immersion, using hoist.

• 8) May install electrical connections, and weld or solder connections in place.

• 9) May inventory and requisition supplies.

• 10) May cast concrete rings for mercury cells, impregnating them in bath of molten tar, and tending steam chamber to dry coated rings and be designated Ring Maker.

• 11) May cast concrete cell covers and fabricate cover parts, such as anode pins, using power tools and handpress, and be designated Cover Maker.