Job Description:

• 1) Operates cracking unit of lead pots and condensers to vaporize and condense scrap plastics materials and recover monomer: Unbolts and removes side covers from lead pot, using handtools, and charges it with lead pigs.

• 2) Adjusts controls of oil burner to melt lead at specified temperature.

• 3) Sets pressure regulators to supply specified quantity of carbon dioxide to lead pot to eliminate formation of explosive mixture and observes process to detect leaks.

• 4) Turns screw feed controls to regulate flow of scrap materials into molten lead.

• 5) Adjusts controls on condensers which automatically recover monomer from solvent and pumps cracked monomer to storage tanks.

• 6) Dismantles lead pot.

• 7) Drains lead into molds.