Job Description:

• 1) Controls operation of steam-jacketed cooker that heats mixture of starch and acid to make dextrine paste: Opens gate on overhead chute or shovels starch into cooker.

• 2) Adds specified amount of acid to start starch conversion process.

• 3) Turns valves to admit steam into jacket of cooker.

• 4) Starts agitator to stir cooking starch.

• 5) Observes process to determine when conversion to dextrine is made and turns valve to transfer dextrine to storage tanks or drums.