Job Description:

• 1) Tends steam cooker that breaks down oil cells and controls moisture content of corn, soybeans, cottonseed, linseed meal or fish, prior to extraction of oil: Turns valves to regulate steam pressure inside cooker or steam jacket and to maintain temperature within specified range.

• 2) Observes conveyor feeding material to cooker or climbs to top of cooker to determine that material is feeding continuously.

• 3) May scoop handful of material from entry or discharge point of cooker and examine or feel material to determine how much steam should be added.

• 4) May record steam pressure and temperature readings at specified intervals.

• 5) May tend machine to crush meats for processing.

• 6) May tend cake-forming machine to shape cottonseed meats for pressing.