Job Description:

• 1) Tends beaters and vats that prepare furnish for making paper, roofing felt, and related products: Turns valves to charge vats with specified amounts of slush pulp, fillers, size, and liquid chemicals.

• 2) Weighs and dumps dry ingredients into vat according to formula.

• 3) Dips furnish sample from vat for laboratory testing.

• 4) Removes plug of vat to dump furnish into beater chest or starts pump to transfer furnish from vat to storage.

• 5) Observes vat and beater operation and notifies BEATER ENGINEER of malfunction.

• 6) Cleans vat with water and hose and scrapes out adhering matter.

• 7) May truck materials from storage.

• 8) May weigh, mix, and cook dyes.

• 9) May chip rust, scale, and other deposits from machine rolls, using airhammer.

• 10) May truck sheet pulp and other materials from stockroom.