A professional who tends equipment that washes, treats, and dries formed dry-charge battery plates. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns valve to drain water into bath compartment.
• Mixes solutions, according to specifications, in measuring tank and drains solutions into other compartments.
• Ignites oven burner and starts blower.
• Observes thermometer and gauges and adjusts temperature control and valves to maintain specified temperature and pressure in dryer.
• Starts and regulates speed of conveyor that conveys batteries through bath, solutions, and dryer.
• Determines oxygen content of gas in oven, using testing device and adjusts airflow to reduce oxidation of plates.
• Transfers batteries from forming department to machine, using handtruck.
• Strips connectors from batteries and loads batteries into racks in water bath.
• Loads containers (battery boxes) from pallet to handtruck at discharge end of machine.
• Unloads batteries from dryer and tests each battery for moisture content, using resistance meter.
• Segregates damp batteries and inserts dry batteries in containers according to specified polarity.
• Transfers batteries to final assembly area, using handtruck.
• May tend conveyor-equipped drying compartment that dries battery plates and be designated Plate-Drying-Machine Tender (elec.
• equip.).