A professional who tends equipment to dry, mix, and compress copper fines into briquettes for use by smelter. Respnsibilities include:

• Starts belt conveyors that automatically feed mixture from wet-bin hopper to heated rotary dryer.
• Turns valve to set burner at specified temperature.
• Tests moisture content of mixture by feeling with fingers.
• Pulls lever to open discharge gate of heating chamber to admit mixture into pug mill.
• Opens valve to add binding solution to obtain mixture of required consistency.
• Turns valve to feed mixture into press to form briquettes.
• Oils and greases equipment, using oilcan and grease gun.