Job Description:

• 1) Tends one or more incinerator furnaces that burn refuse, such as sludge, trash, and garbage: Pulls mechanism to release refuse from hopper into incinerator.

• 2) Moves levers to ignite burners, to adjust blowers and dampers that regulate airflow and temperature, and to control charging, discharging, and quenching mechanisms of furnace.

• 3) Opens furnace door and agitates burning refuse to facilitate combustion, using stoking hoe.

• 4) Moves levers to open grate and drop ashes and noncombustible material from furnace at end of burning cycle.

• 5) Replaces refractory linings of furnace, using firebrick and mortar.

• 6) Cleans debris from furnace room floor, using rake and broom.

• 7) May assist SUPERVISOR, INCINERATOR PLANT in maintenance and repair of cranes, conveyor equipment, and exhaust system, using handtools.