A professional who sets up and operates continuous multistrand electrogalvanizing and heat-treating machine to coat steel strip or wire with zinc, according to written specifications. Respnsibilities include:

• Mixes chemical solutions, using formulas.
• Fills cleaning, pickling, galvanizing, and waxing tanks.
• Charges furnace with gas or coal to prepare for galvanizing process.
• Inserts wire reels and feeds wire into machine.
• Moves controls on rheostats and generators to regulate movement of wire strand between reels, plating tanks, and coils, to obtain specified thickness of coating.
• Adjusts controls to regulate temperature of leadpot, cleaners, picklers, and plating tanks.
• Performs chemical solution tests, such as titration tests, wire hardness tests, dip coating tests, and welding tests, to determine conformance to specifications.
• Readjusts controls based on findings.
• Records test results.
• Examines coating, washing, and alignment of wire strands visually and using micrometers to compare finished strands with specifications.
• Resets and changes combs when changing width and number of strands.
• Replaces anodes and recharges leadpot at specified intervals.