Job Description:

• 1) Tends cookers that melt grease and tallow from offal, bone, and meat: Turns valves to admit steam to cooker until indicator on steam pressure gauge reaches specified point.

• 2) Turns handwheel or lifts lever to open discharge gate of cooker when light indicates material is ready for further processing.

• 3) Starts agitator paddles that force cooked material into vat or conveyor hopper.

• 4) Signals COOKER LOADER or OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATOR to refill cooker.

• 5) May shovel cooked material from vat into conveyor hopper.

• 6) May load cookers.

• 7) May pull material from cooker, using hoe.