A professional who performs any combination of following duties in shot tower to facilitate production of small arms ammunition. Respnsibilities include:

• Unloads lead pigs from freight car and conveys and stacks them, using electric forklift truck.
• Loads specified proportions of lead and antimony-lead pigs onto conveyor, using electric hoist.
• Opens and closes valves, using metal hook, to direct conveyor flow of scrap shot to designated storage bins at top of shot tower.
• Lights fires under lead melting kettles and dross converter.
• Dumps or shovels scrap lead or dross into kettles or converter.
• Skims dross from molten lead, using skimming ladle.
• Removes dross from converter, using rake and hoe.