Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that flattens and dries oilseed, such as soybean, cottonseed, and corn, and presses it to extract oil: Turns handwheels to adjust distance between rollers that flatten oilseed.

• 2) Starts rollers and turns gate valve to admit oilseed.

• 3) Observes rolling process to ensure that pressure of rollers on oilseed is not sufficient to extract oil.

• 4) Turns control of heat drier to specified temperature, and opens chute to admit flattened oilseed to drier.

• 5) Turns steam valves of heat cooker to cook dried oilseed.

• 6) Turns handwheels to adjust roller pressure of oil expeller.

• 7) Feels samples of expelled oilseed to determine that sufficient quantity of oil has been removed.

• 8) May tend attrition mill that breaks up dehydrated oilseed.

• 9) May be designated according to process phase as Crusher Tender; Drier Tender II; Oil-Expeller.