Job Description:

• 1) Tends electrode cleaning machine that scrapes excess carbon from baked or graphitized electrodes: Pushes machine, mounted on rails, to area where electrodes are stacked horizontally on racks and aligns machine with guide bars extending from rack.

• 2) Blocks wheels to prevent machine from rolling during cleaning process.

• 3) Moves levers that lower stop bar on machine and allow electrode to roll from rack onto rollers of machine.

• 4) Starts machine to rotate electrode on rollers and moves lever to lower abrasive belt onto electrode to scrape away excess carbon.

• 5) Stops machine when scraping is complete and moves lever that raises abrasive belt and ejects cleaned electrode onto rack adjacent to machine.

• 6) Inspects cleaned electrode to ensure that excess carbon is removed.