Job Description:

• 1) Tends machines and equipment that prepare and blend dry and liquid chemicals to produce flammable mixtures of specified composition for igniter, subigniter, and tracer powders used in tracer bullets: Weighs and measures amounts of ingredients in pounds, ounces, and drams, according to chart, using bench scale and beakers.

• 2) Tends remote-controlled tumbling barrels to blend chemicals, adding ingredients in designated sequence at timed intervals; steam-heated oven to dry ingredients; and remote-controlled ball mill to pulverize dried ingredients, adding required number of rubber balls to achieve prescribed degree of pulverization.

• 3) Sifts powder through silk screen by hand.

• 4) Pours finished mixes into rubber pouches, marks with identifying data, and carries them to storage magazines.

• 5) Brushes, washes, and hoses equipment and premises to prevent dangerous accumulation of powder.