Job Description:

• 1) Supervises and coordinates workers engaged in operating either press-and-blow, blow-and-blow, or spin forming machines and controlling auxiliary equipment, such as forehearths and lehrs, used to form glass bottles, containers, and other glassware: Reviews production schedules to plan job change-overs, to requisition molds and parts from mold department, and to assign workers.

• 2) Observes machine operations to verify mold pressures and temperatures, plunger pressures, timing of sequences, and size of gob, using knowledge of machine operation and product specifications.

• 3) Inspects formed glassware for surface defects and conformance to specifications for size, shape, and weight, using templates, dial indicators, and scales.

• 4) May make or assist in making job change-overs by removing and replacing molds, air lines feeder tubes, and plungers, and by adjusting gob shears and timing mechanism, using handtools and knowledge of job change-over procedures.

• 5) May regulate and adjust temperatures and conveyor speeds of annealing lehr.

• 6) May be designated Supervisor, Bottle Machines.

• 7) Performs other duties described under SUPERVISOR Master Title.