Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates automatic machine to form bulbs and other products from molten glass: Installs molds, forming devices, and orifice plates, following specifications.

• 2) Positions forming mechanisms between forehearth and lehr.

• 3) Turns controls to regulate temperatures and pressures in forehearth and forming molds and flow of coolant on rollers.

• 4) Verifies temperature of molten glass in forehearth, using optical pyrometer.

• 5) Raises plunger forehearth orifice to start flow of molten glass through machine units.

• 6) Adjusts rollers to control glass thickness, using handtools and measuring devices.

• 7) Monitors gauges, such as temperature, pressure, machine speed, and rate of glass flow.

• 8) Examines for variations from processing standards, using templates and gauges.