Job Description:

• 1) Tends heated vats to mix and cook tobacco casing fluid ingredients: Admits steam into jacket of vat.

• 2) Dumps solid ingredients into vat and pours liquids from pail or turns valve to admit liquids, following written or oral instructions.

• 3) Starts agitator in vat or stirs mixture with paddle to mix ingredients and prevent them from boiling over.

• 4) Starts pump or removes bung from bottom of vat, after mixture is cooked into syrup, to transfer casing fluid to storage tanks.

• 5) May measure specific gravity of fluid, using hydrometer, and add water, according to consistency of mix.

• 6) May weigh or measure cooked ingredients.