A professional who casts lead storage battery parts, such as grids, connectors, posts, and straps. Respnsibilities include:

• Installs specified type and size mold on bed of machine, using handtools.
• Loads lead bars or shovels pig lead or scrap lead into melting kettle.
• Ignites burner and sets controls to melt and heat lead to casting temperature.
• Coats or smokes faces of mold to prevent sticking, using spray gun or acetylene torch.
• Dips ladle into molten metal and pours metal into mold.
• Moves lever or strikes knock-out pins with mallet to open mold and release parts.
• Inspects parts for cracks, flash, or faulty molding, and adjusts temperature of kettle to correct defects.
• Trims edges of parts, using hand scraper or pedal-operated power shear.
• Cleans mold, using brush.
• May change mold inserts and adjust knock-out pins, using handtools and depth gauge.
• May position and manually hold one half of mold against other half, pour metal into mold, and separate mold parts and loosen castings, using soft mallet.
• May pour lead into molds held in radial arms of machine that brings molds to worker and discharges castings onto table.
• May sort and weigh parts.
• May be designated according to part cast as Grid Caster.