Job Description:

• 1) Tends vat to cook blended cheeses or cheese curd and other ingredients to make process cheese: Starts agitator and signals for cheese to be dropped into vat.

• 2) Turns steam valve and observes thermometer to heat vat to specified temperature.

• 3) Measures or weighs out prescribed ingredients, such as sodium citrate, disodium phosphate, and cream, using scale and measuring glass.

• 4) Dumps ingredients into vat.

• 5) Cooks mixture at specified temperature for specified time or observes consistency of mixture to determine when it is cooked to specifications.

• 6) Pulls lever to drain cheese into hopper or bucket.

• 7) May pump cheese through viscolizer to achieve finer texture.

• 8) May mix unheated cheese or cheese curd and other ingredients to make cold pack cheese or creamed cheese and be designated Cream-Cheese Maker.