Job Description:

• 1) Tends machines that mix specified quantities and types of liquid, powder, and paste ingredients to form slurry for processing into soap products, such as bars, flakes, chips, and granules: Pulls slide from discharge chute of hopper to admit preweighed dry materials into tank, or shovels preweighed solid ingredients into tank.

• 2) Opens valves to add specified amount of water, paste, or steam.

• 3) Starts agitator to mix materials for prescribed period of time.

• 4) Observes gauge and adjusts valves to maintain specified temperature.

• 5) Weighs and dumps specified additional ingredients or adjusts scale tank and pumps in additional ingredients.

• 6) Turns valve to pump completed batch to booster tank, or shovels completed batch into wheelbarrow.

• 7) Draws sample of slurry for laboratory analysis.

• 8) Records number of batches mixed.