A professional who tends furnace that heats scrapped small arms ammunition to explode powder and reclaim lead and brass. Respnsibilities include:

• Pulls trucks of tote boxes from storage area to furnace hoppers.
• Scoops or dumps primers or loaded cartridges into hopper.
• Shovels exploded primers from furnace floor or skims cartridge and bullet cases from surface of molten lead, using skimming tool, and deposits them in containers, according to type of metal.
• Ladles molten lead from furnace pot into pig molds.
• Carries cooled pigs to storage area and stacks them on skids.
• May burn waste powder in open pit by dumping it onto wood fire, using remote-control trolley.