A professional who sets up and operates machine to extrude sheets of candle wax or candles. Responsibilities include:

• Reviews instructions to determine type product to be produced.
• Installs specified die plates in machine, using handtools.
• Threads wick material through machine guides.
• Turns valve and dials to transfer wax to machine and to regulate speed, pressure, and temperature of machine.
• Starts machine that feeds wax and wick through dies to produce candles of specified dimensions or forces wax through dies to produce sheet of candle wax.
• Adjusts pressure controls to obtain specified dimensions.