A professional who tends equipment that recovers and reconditions mercury used in electrolytic cells. Respnsibilities include:

• Sweeps, shovels, and dumps mercury-bearing material onto vibrating screen that separates mercury.
• Flushes screen with water, using hose, and drains off water into settling tank, forming sludge.
• Ladles contaminated mercury and sludge into reclaiming kettle and turns valves to admit acid and steam to separate foreign matter from mercury.
• Drains mercury into flask.
• May break used cell anodes to salvage porcelain insulators and copper posts, using hammer.
• May tend concentrating table to remove mercury residue from scrap material for recovery.
• May weigh flasks of recovered mercury for inventory records.