Job Description:

• 1) Operates rotary kiln, ball mill and conveying equipment to recover soluble soda and alumina from waste materials: Moves lever and switch controls to start and regulate rotation speed of kiln.

• 2) Moves controls to maintain specified temperatures throughout kiln and feed rate of kiln.

• 3) Catches samples of slurry clinker from kiln, and observes discharge of slurry at sample points to ensure specified burning.

• 4) Moves controls of cooling air fan, cooler exhaust fan, and air dampers to adjust temperature of grate cooler and airflows to burners.

• 5) Moves controls and adjusts feed valves to start conveyor and bucket elevator system and to transport calcined clinker, bauxite, and soda ash into ball mill.

• 6) Regulates valves and pumps to transfer slurry from ball mill into digestion tanks and to supply water to kiln trunnions and water-cooled bearings.

• 7) Keeps operating log.

• 8) Replaces charts in automatic recording devices.