Job Description:

• 1) Operates decker or rotary filter machines to remove water from pulp stock and reduce stock to specified consistency for bleaching or beating: Turns valves to regulate flow of pulp stock into machine vat.

• 2) Starts machine and adjusts controls to regulate speed of cylindrical screen in vat.

• 3) Turns valve to adjust suction in cylinder to deposit pulp on screen at specified rate and remove white water through meshes of screen.

• 4) Turns handwheels or pulls lever to adjust press roll against screen to obtain pulp of specified consistency.

• 5) Pulls lever to adjust blade that scrapes pulp from screen into storage chest.

• 6) May tend flat or rotary screens to remove coarse fibers from pulp.