A professional who tends manually operated extrusion press and wirecutter that extrudes and cuts paste (black mix) to form dry-cell battery cores. Respnsibilities include:

• Loads press hopper with paste and moves lever to start ram that forces paste through die of prescribed diameter onto cutter.
• Pulls lever to lower wire cutter and cut extruded paste into segments (cores).
• Tilts cutter to dump cores onto tray.