Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that blends batches of smokeless powder to obtain final product having uniform ballistic properties: Moves levers in control room to activate rotation equipment or to transfer powder repeatedly between top and bottom bins to effect thorough mixing.

• 2) Opens vent in bottom bin to dump powder into containers or buggies for storage, shipment, or further processing.

• 3) May add or remove powders in rotating blender barrels, using hand scoop, to adjust mixture or remove sample.

• 4) When tending machine equipped with toothed rotors to blend powder, is designated Macerator Operator.

• 5) May be designated according to kind of powder blended as Tetryl-Blender Operator.