Job Description:

• 1) Feeds wood chips and soda ash or acid into digester that processes wood chips into pulp: Unbolts and removes digester cover, using wrench and chain hoist.

• 2) Lowers feed pipe into digester, using hoist, and pushes button or turns handwheel to load digester with wood chips.

• 3) Pushes control panel button or turns valve to admit specified quantities of soda ash or acid into digester.

• 4) Replaces and bolts cover.

• 5) May remove cover and blow steam from digester at completion of cooking cycle.

• 6) May tend conveyors that convey chips to hopper or cooked pulp to storage bins.

• 7) May open valves to blow cooked pulp into pit.

• 8) May pull lever to dump cooked pulp from rotary digester.

• 9) May draw and deliver pulp sample to laboratory for analysis.