A professional who tends electrode cleaning machine that scrapes excess carbon from baked or graphitized electrodes. Respnsibilities include:

• Pushes machine, mounted on rails, to area where electrodes are stacked horizontally on racks and aligns machine with guide bars extending from rack.
• Blocks wheels to prevent machine from rolling during cleaning process.
• Moves levers that lower stop bar on machine and allow electrode to roll from rack onto rollers of machine.
• Starts machine to rotate electrode on rollers and moves lever to lower abrasive belt onto electrode to scrape away excess carbon.
• Stops machine when scraping is complete and moves lever that raises abrasive belt and ejects cleaned electrode onto rack adjacent to machine.
• Inspects cleaned electrode to ensure that excess carbon is removed.