A professional who tends furnace that melts scrap metal and casts it into pigs (bars or ingots) for reuse. Respnsibilities include:

• Regulates furnace controls to attain specified temperature.
• Shovels scrap metal into furnace.
• Skims dross (scum) from molten metal, using ladle.
• Turns valve and allows molten metal to run into molds to form pigs.
• Removes cooled pigs from mold and stacks pigs in storage area.