Job Description:

• 1) Controls periodic, field, or retort kilns to bake clay products, such as brick, sewer pipe, clay refractories, and roofing tile: Opens fuel valves and lights gas or oil fire, using oil-soaked stick.

• 2) Seals kiln door with bricks and daubs brick with clay to prevent loss of heat, using trowel.

• 3) Observes thermometer and action of pyrometric cones through peepholes, or removes object from kiln with tongs and examines object to determine rate of burning.

• 4) Turns gas or oil valves and dampers to adjust rate of burning or baking of objects.

• 5) Closes fuel valves and fireboxes, opens kiln-crown holes, and installs fans to cool objects.

• 6) May be designated according to type of kiln operated as Dry-Kiln Burner; Field-Kiln Burner; Retort-Kiln Burner; or according to product burned as Brick-Kiln Burner; Roofing-Tile Burner.