Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that cools preserves and fruit concentrate: Turns valve to admit water into jacket of cooling pan to cool preserves and fruit concentrate.

• 2) Skims foam from top of preserves, using ladle.

• 3) Stirs preserves or fruit concentrate with paddle to prevent coagulation and to allow even cooling.

• 4) Observes thickening and starts pump, or opens dump valve, to transfer preserves or fruit concentrate from cooling pan to holding tank or filling machine when desired consistency is reached.

• 5) May determine sugar content of preserves or fruit concentrate, using refractometer, and record results.

• 6) May add sugar or water to preserves or fruit concentrate, according to formula, to bring sugar content up to standard.

• 7) May start fan above cooling pan to aid cooling.