Job Description:

• 1) Directs pouring of slag from ladle through spout into reverberatory furnace used for smelting: Raises furnace door, using lever or air hoist.

• 2) Guides OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATOR by signal horn and lights in positioning ladle over spout and pouring slag.

• 3) Sprays water on inner walls of spout to remove encrusted slag, or pries slag loose with iron bar.

• 4) Shovels slag into car or furnace.

• 5) Patches cracks in spout with moist clay, smoothing surface with hand or shovel.

• 6) Scatters slurry of silica and clay evenly over inner surface of spout to decrease slag-crust during pouring operation.

• 7) May guide DINKEY OPERATOR into position over furnace, using hand signals.

• 8) May record amount of slag dumped into furnace on analysis sheet.