Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that mixes chemicals for use in bleaching, cleaning, desizing, latexing, mercerizing, and finishing canvas goods, carpets and rugs, felt goods, and textile yarns and fabrics: Weighs or measures quantities of ingredients, such as peroxide, silica, caustic, solvents, emulsions, resins, starches, and detergents, following formula, and pours them into mixing tank.

• 2) Turns valves to admit water into tank up to mark on tank wall.

• 3) Starts mixer and allows solution to mix for specified period of time.

• 4) Turns valve to transfer solution from mixing tank to storage tank.

• 5) Tests solutions in storage tanks with hydrometer, viscosimeter, or by titration to detect variations from standards and adds appropriate ingredients to restore solution to standard strength.

• 6) Records test results, batches of solutions mixed, and chemicals used in each batch for production and inventory purposes.

• 7) May inject steam into solution to dissolve ingredients or cook solution to specified consistency.

• 8) May be designated according to solution mixed as Acid-Bath Mixer; Ammonia-Solution Preparer; Caustic Mixer; Gum Mixer; Latex Compounder; Size Maker; Soap Mixer; Waterproofing Mixer.