A professional who operates one or more automatic single- or multiple-mold casting machines to mold storage battery parts, such as grids, connectors, and posts. Respnsibilities include:

• Loads lead bars or shovels pig lead and scrap lead into melting kettle.
• Ignites burners and sets controls to melt lead and heat molds to specified temperature.
• Smokes or coats mold with compound to prevent sticking, using acetylene torch or spray gun.
• Aligns and adjusts mold halves to ensure casting of grids according to specified thickness, using handtools.
• Turns valves to control flow of lead to ladles and water to mold-cooling sprays.
• Starts machine that automatically pours specified amount of lead from ladle into mold.
• Inspects parts ejected from molds to detect defects or discolorations, and measures and weighs grids, using fixed gauges and scale, to ensure conformance to thickness and weight specifications.
• Adjusts temperatures of lead and molds and flow of lead or water to correct defects.
• Removes lead adhering to mold, using brush or scraper.
• Skims dross from molten lead, using hand ladle.
• May operate single-mold machine equipped with press that automatically trims grids.
• May repair pipe connections and stitch or replace conveyor belt, using handtools.
• May change or adjust molds.