A professional who sets up and operates series of machines to mix ingredients, extrude clay mixture, and to cut extruded column into brick and tile products. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns valves to feed and regulate flow of ingredients into mixing machine and to create vacuum in de-airing machine.
• Installs die, core, rings, and former in extrusion head, using handtools and measuring instruments.
• Sets controls on automatic cutoff knives to cut clay column according to job order specifications.
• Starts machinery.
• Examines extruded product to detect variations from specified hardness, and turns valves to feed water and oil into pug mill to correct consistency of clay.
• Replaces knives, reamers, and finishers in automatic finishing units.
• Records production.
• May operate individual machine and be designated Auger-Press Operator; Cutter Operator, Brick; Cutter Operator, Tile; Pug Mill Operator.