Job Description:

• 1) Controls semiautomatic equipment, from control panel, to blend ingredients for bread and deposit specified quantity of dough in baking pans: Notifies other workers to admit broth into feedlines and to start loading specified size pans onto conveyor.

• 2) Turns handwheel to adjust conveyor guides to size of pans.

• 3) Starts flour sifter, premixer that blends ingredients, and developer that kneads dough, working from remote control panel.

• 4) Observes dials and recording instruments to verify temperature of broth, viscosity of dough, and speed of mixing units.

• 5) Feels dough emerging from developer to ascertain that consistency meets plant standard.

• 6) Turns developer speed control to specified setting and starts divider blades that pinch off and drop dough into pans passing on conveyor.

• 7) Turns handwheel and control bar to adjust discharge aperture above divider blades so that dough is uniformly shaped and deposited in center of pan.

• 8) Weighs sample pieces of dough and turns divider speed handle to regulate amount of dough deposited in pans.

• 9) Records temperatures, viscosity, and feed rate from instrument readings.