Job Description:

• 1) Tends battery of automatic machines that perform any combination of following operations to assemble shotgun shells preparatory to loading with powder and shot: Starts machine that coils paper strip into wad and presses wad into shell body; presses molded base wad into shell body; presses metal head onto body and crimps head to form extractor flange; or presses loaded primer into head.

• 2) Observes machines for jams in hoppers and feed mechanisms and removes jammed components.

• 3) Examines assembled shells for defects, such as open seams, wad bulges, damaged mouths, and malformed or tarnished heads.

• 4) Measures head thickness and diameter, shell length, and primer depth, using fixed gauges and dial micrometer.

• 5) Weighs coiled paper base wads on grain scale to verify conformance to specifications.

• 6) May fill hoppers with components and remove filled containers of assembled shells and rejects.