Job Description:

• 1) Assembles component parts of tracer shells, signals, flares, and other pyrotechnics, performing any combination of following tasks: Loads relays with black powder pellets.

• 2) Tends press that pushes powder charge tightly into relay.

• 3) Assembles and loads mine fuses with red phosphorous and black powder.

• 4) Installs relays in shells and screws them in place.

• 5) Loads shells with tracer powder, tamps pellets with automatic press, and seals chamber with celluloid disk.

• 6) May cut and sew silk to assist in making of signal flare parachutes.