A professional who drives electric-powered transfer (flat) car to transfer carloads of lumber between loading, drying, and storage areas, and operates winch to load and unload kilns. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns rheostat lever to drive transfer car along track to loading platform, and aligns rails (tracks) on transfer car with rails on platform.
• Hooks winch cable to carload of lumber and pushes and pulls levers to activate winch and pull loaded lumber car onto transfer car.
• Drives transfer car with carload of lumber to designated dry kiln and aligns transfer car rails with rails into kiln.
• Hooks cable to lumber car and operates winch to pull lumber car into kiln.
• Pulls lumber car from kiln when lumber is dry and transfers it to storage or to processing department.
• May tend stacking machine that stacks and unstacks lumber onto lumber car.