A professional who relines bottoms of ingot-soaking pits with coke dust to retard formation of oxide scale on hot ingots. Respnsibilities include:

• Digs out molten metal, slag scale, and cinder from bottoms of pits, using flat-pointed bar, and scrapes debris into ladle.
• Shovels coke dust into pit, using bar to level bottom surface.
• May change crane tong bits, using sledgehammer.