A professional who tends charging mechanism that moves steel shapes, such as blooms, billets, and slabs, in specified sequence, through soaking-pit furnace. Respnsibilities include:

• Signals charger-operator helper or overhead crane operator to position steel on furnace skids.
• Moves levers on control panel to position skid on entry bed, open furnace door, and start pusher arm that pushes steel into furnace.
• Observes inside of furnace, projected on television screen, and moves controls to spot steel in specified locations.
• Moves controls to discharge steel onto mill rollers.
• Records quantity of steel charged and discharged.
• Assists other workers in cleaning furnace bottoms and repairing or replacing defective equipment, using handtools.