Job Description:

• 1) Tends battery of reduction pots that smelt aluminum oxide into aluminum: Adds specified amounts of oxide to pots from overhead hopper, at designated time intervals, and rakes oxide over crust formed by cooling of bath.

• 2) Observes gas flames breaking through crust, and rakes oxide or pieces of crust over flames to prevent damage to anode.

• 3) Watches warning lights and notes color of electrolyte, and breaks up crust to add oxide to bath, using crowbar or pneumatic crust-breaking machine.

• 4) Stirs bath to eliminate gas, using rake.

• 5) Observes instruments and turns rheostat, or repositions anode in bath, to increase or decrease current flow and regulate temperature of solution.

• 6) May train workers in operation of reduction pots.