Job Description:

• 1) Tends clay roasting kilns and auxiliary equipment in which clay, used as filter in treating oil, is cleaned and treated for reuse.

• 2) Adjusts temperature of rotary kilns in which clay is roasted, by regulating valves controlling gas or oil and air supply.

• 3) Starts, stops, and regulates speed of conveyors and elevators by which used clay is charged into kilns from storage bins.

• 4) Fires oil-burning or gas-burning steam heater to supply steam for treating clay before it is dumped from filters.

• 5) Checks weight per cubic foot of clay to determine whether it conforms to requirements, using spring balance.

• 6) Cleans lumps of fused clay from screens at outlet of kilns.

• 7) Oils and greases equipment.