Job Description:

• 1) Cleans and sterilizes machinery, utensils, and equipment used to process or store products, such as chemicals, paint, food, or beverages: Turns valves to drain machines or tanks and disconnects pipes, using wrenches.

• 2) Sprays machines, tanks, and conveyors with water to loosen and remove dirt or other foreign matter.

• 3) Scrubs machines, tanks, tables, pans, bowls, compartments, and conveyors, using brushes, rags, cleaning preparations, and diluted acids.

• 4) Rinses articles with water, and dries them with compressed air.

• 5) Scrubs floors and walls, using brushes, rags, and diluted acids.

• 6) Connects hoses and lines to pump and starts pump to circulate cleaning and sterilizing solution through hoses and lines.

• 7) Scrubs interior of disconnected pipes, valves, spigots, gauges, and meters, using spiral brushes.

• 8) Mixes cleaning solutions and diluted acids, according to formula.

• 9) Draws off samples of cleaning solutions from mixing tanks for laboratory analysis.

• 10) May replace defective sections of metal coils and lines, using handtools, soldering iron, and pipe couplings.

• 11) May lubricate machinery.

• 12) May be designated according to equipment cleaned as Beer-Coil Cleaner; Lard-Tub Washer; Line Cleaner; Pipe Washer.

• 13) May sterilize equipment and be designated Equipment Sterilizer.