A professional who tends cast-molding machine that forms candles. Responsibilities include:

• Fills machine with liquid wax and turns valve to force steam into jackets to heat molds.
• Turns valve to transfer wax to molds.
• Scrapes flash from molds, using knife, and depresses pedal to eject candles into trays.
• Cuts candlewick ends to specified length, using knife.
• May move lever to force needles, threaded with wicks, through candles or to insert pins into candles, leaving hole for later insertion of wick.
• May imbed decorative bases in butt ends of candles during cooling.
• May insert wax cores in molds for application of final wax coating.