Job Description:

• 1) Drives electrically powered transfer car on railroad tracks to transport carloads of brick or tile to and from loading station, drying tunnel, kiln, sorting area, or other designated area: Flips switches, moves levers, and depresses pedals to move transfer car to loading station and aligns rails on transfer car with rails on loading platform.

• 2) Hooks winch cable to carload of brick or tile and operates winch to pull loaded drier car or kiln car onto transfer car.

• 3) Drives transfer car to specified drier or kiln and aligns transfer car rails with rails into kiln or drier.

• 4) Hooks cable to loaded car and operates winch to pull car into drier or kiln.

• 5) Pulls car of dried or fired brick or tile from drying tunnel or kiln and transfers car to sorting area, processing department, or storage area.

• 6) May manually push or pull loaded or empty cars onto or off transfer car.

• 7) May open and close drying tunnel or kiln doors, using hook or by pressing button or moving lever.

• 8) May move dried brick from drier cars to kiln cars, using hoist.

• 9) May operate automated system that loads brick onto drier cars and moves cars through drying tunnel.