Job Description:

• 1) Controls kettles to boil soap ingredients, such as lye, resin, palm oil, and tallow, to specified consistency: Opens valves to fill kettle with ingredients in specified amounts, and weighs and dumps ingredients in kettle, using scale.

• 2) Opens steam valve to heat kettle to specified temperature.

• 3) Observes boiling rate, reads temperature gauges, and turns valves to maintain temperature within critical limits.

• 4) Boils ingredient for specified time and draws and tests sample for consistency, specific gravity, and chemical content, using laboratory equipment, such as hydrometer.

• 5) Starts pumps and opens valves to transfer mixture to storage tanks.

• 6) May stir ingredients with paddle.