Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment to fill cylinders and other containers with liquefied or compressed gases: Changes cylinder valves with wrench, or adjusts them to prescribed tension, using torque wrench.

• 2) Rolls cylinders onto platform scale, or positions cylinders in manifold racks manually or with chain hoist.

• 3) Connects lines from manifold to cylinders, using wrench.

• 4) Fills cylinders by any of following methods: Sets pressure gauge to specified reading and listens for buzzer indicating completion of filling.

• 5) Adjusts valves and observes gauge to fill cylinders to specified pressure.

• 6) Observes scale indicator to fill cylinders to specified weight.

• 7) Fills cylinder to excess, rolls cylinder onto scale, and connects exhaust line to release excess gas and attain prescribed gross weight.

• 8) Sprays or brushes chemical solution onto cylinder valve to test for leaks.

• 9) Fills out and attaches warning and identification tags or decals, specifying tare and gross weight, cylinder number, type of gas, and date filled, and records data.

• 10) May test gas for purity, using burette or other testing equipment.

• 11) May inspect or test empty cylinder.

• 12) May evacuate residual gases from cylinders.

• 13) May test filled cylinders for specified gas pressure by connecting gauge and comparing reading with chart.

• 14) May tend and maintain generator or compressor in filling process.

• 15) May be designated according to type of container filled as Ton-Container Filler; Tube-Trailer Filler.