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

  • Heat Treat Technician
  • Operating Technician

  • Kindle fires, and shovel fuel and other materials into furnaces or onto conveyors by hand, with hoists, or by directing crane operators.
  • Observe air and temperature gauges or metal color and fluidity, and turn fuel valves or adjust controls to maintain required temperatures.
  • Regulate supplies of fuel and air, or control flow of electric current and water coolant to heat furnaces and adjust temperatures.

  • Ignite fuel to activate heating equipment.
  • Measure ingredients or substances to be used in production processes.