A professional who assists briquette-machine operator in dehydrating, pulverizing, mixing, and molding ingredients to produce fuel briquettes. Respnsibilities include:

• Inserts suction hose into opening in top of tank trucks and starts motor to transfer powdered charcoal, coal, or coke from truck to storage.
• Shovels or dumps sacked briquette ingredients into hoppers.
• Scrapes ingredients from drying oven with scraper and shovels ingredients onto conveyor.
• Pounds on conveyor pipes with hammer or woodblock to loosen clogged material.
• Lubricates machines and removes and installs machine parts as directed by briquette-machine operator.