Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that impregnates wooden pencil slats with dye, oil, and wax to color and soften slats: Places bundles of slats in cylinder and closes door.

• 2) Turns bolts to secure cylinder door, using wrench.

• 3) Measures out and pours specified amounts of dye, oil, and wax into tank.

• 4) Turns switches and valves to pump solution from tank into cylinder to impregnate slats for specified time.

• 5) Pumps solution from cylinder to tank and opens cylinder door.

• 6) Removes slats from cylinder and places them in drying kiln.