Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that fluffs and dries cotton linters or woodpulp for further processing into explosives: Places portion of linters or woodpulp on revolving rollers that feed it into cylinder equipped with picking spikes.

• 2) Inspects fluffed material for presence of impurities and fluffy appearance as it is discharged into drier.

• 3) Moves controls to maintain temperature of hot-air oven at plant standard and to regulate speed of drier conveyor for efficient drying.

• 4) When tending separate picking and drying units, may be designated according to unit tended as Cotton-Picker Operator; Linter-Drier Operator.