Job Description:

• 1) Operates pipe cleaning and priming machine to clean rust, scale, and dirt from pipelines, and to apply prime coating of hot asphalt: Selects cleaning and priming head to fit pipe and bolts them to machine-driven pulley.

• 2) Bolts scraping knives and steel wire brushes to inside of cleaning head and bristle brushes inside priming head.

• 3) Adjusts spring tension on knives and brushes with handtools.

• 4) Signals TRACTOR OPERATOR to lift and slide pipe cleaning and priming machine over end of pipe.

• 5) Starts engine and moves levers to rotate cleaning and priming heads around pipe, and to propel machine along pipeline.

• 6) Opens valve to start flow of hot asphalt coating onto pipe surfaces.

• 7) May operate machine to remove heavy deposits of scale, rust, or other foreign matter from pipes preparatory to cleaning and coating and be designated Pipe-Cleaning-Machine Operator.