How do they match: Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders

  • Draw smelted metal samples from furnaces or kettles for analysis, and calculate types and amounts of materials needed to ensure that materials meet specifications.
  • Kindle fires, and shovel fuel and other materials into furnaces or onto conveyors by hand, with hoists, or by directing crane operators.
  • Prepare material to load into furnaces, including cleaning, crushing, or applying chemicals, by using crushing machines, shovels, rakes, or sprayers.
  • Weigh materials to be charged into furnaces, using scales.

  • Calculate specific material, equipment, or labor requirements for production.
  • Clean materials to prepare them for production.
  • Collect samples of materials or products for testing.
  • Load materials into production equipment.
  • Place materials into molds.