Job Description:

• 1) Controls equipment to bleach pulp: Starts pumps and adjusts controls to regulate flow of pulp to chlorination towers, bleaching and soaking tanks, and pulp washers, according to specified bleaching sequence.

• 2) Opens valves to allow metered flow of such chemicals as liquid and gaseous chlorine, sulfur dioxide gas, caustic soda, hypochlorite, and peroxide into pulp, according to bleaching specifications.

• 3) Starts agitators to mix pulp and chemicals.

• 4) Tends cylinder washers to wash soluble impurities and excess bleach from pulp after each bleaching operation.

• 5) Adjusts controls to ensure that pulp bleaching meets specifications, according to laboratory test reports.

• 6) Starts equipment to pump bleached pulp to storage.

• 7) May make titration tests.

• 8) May test whiteness of pulp, using reflectance meter.

• 9) May tend decker machines that thicken pulp.

• 10) May be designated according to pulp-making process as Bleacher, Groundwood Pulp; Bleacher, Kraft Pulp; Bleacher, Sulfite Pulp.