Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that mixes and strains filling and coating materials for paper: Weighs and dumps specified quantities of materials, such as clay, soda ash, titanium dioxide, lithopone, or gypsum, into hopper of mixing machine.

• 2) Turns valve to admit metered volume of water into mixing machine and starts machine that mixes ingredients.

• 3) Starts pumps that force mixture through straining screens and into storage tanks.

• 4) Lifts screens from machine and washes screens with water hose.

• 5) May deliver sacks of materials to mixer, using handtruck or forklift truck.

• 6) May weigh and add specified quantities of color pigments to mixture.

• 7) May plan mixing according to paper production orders.