Job Description:

• 1) Tends furnace that heats perlite to expel volatile material and reduce ore to powder for use as insulating material, plaster, and concrete aggregate: Dumps pulverized perlite onto shaker screen that sifts perlite to specified fineness.

• 2) Starts conveyor that feeds screened material into furnace.

• 3) Shovels calcined perlite into sack or fills sack by holding it under discharge hopper.