Job Description:

• 1) Assembles and sets off fireworks displays at fairs, expositions, or celebrations, according to picture programs or diagrams: Advises committee as to distance audience should be from setoff site of display, according to wind direction and velocity, considering fallout of sparks and acid, and types of fireworks used.

• 2) Lays out setoff arrangement.

• 3) Directs workers to set mortars apart from ground display, and places barrier of sandbags, railroad ties, or boxes of gravel between mortars to avoid detonating shells from sparks.

• 4) Assembles framework and affixes display to framework, using hammer, saw, nails, scissors, and twine.

• 5) Ties fuses of components to lead fuse to create simultaneous fireworks display.

• 6) Determines appropriate time for setting off of display, according to environmental conditions.