A professional who tends oil-fired kettles that melt and fume antimony to make antimony oxide. Respnsibilities include:

• Charges antimony crystals into melting kettle with hoist, and fires burners.
• Regulates temperature according to thermometer readings and color and appearance of metal.
• Skims slag from surface of kettle.
• Connects trough from melting to fuming kettle, and pours metal into trough by tilting kettle.
• Heats metal to specified temperature to vaporize antimony which is drawn to baghouse and condensed as oxide dust.
• Fills buggy with antimony oxide from hoppers, and weighs filled buggy on floor scale.
• Empties buggy onto conveyor leading to rotating drum in which oxides from different charges are blended.
• Transfers blended dust to conveyor leading to automatic bagging machine.
• Determines antimony content by casting sample into rod of specified size, weighing it, and referring to standard chart.