Job Description:

• 1) Tends fermenting tanks and auxiliary equipment to produce active constituent of antibiotic drug products: Starts agitator fermenting and mixing tanks and adds prescribed quantities of ingredients, such as salt, sugar, and yeast.

• 2) Turns valves and starts pumps to transfer mixture to fermenting tank and maintain specified temperature in tanks for prescribed time.

• 3) Opens valves to admit water, liquid seed antibiotic, and foam-preventing oil, according to critical plant specifications.

• 4) Unbolts lid of fermenter tank and measures level of solution, using dipstick.

• 5) Turns valves to transfer mixture to crystallization tank for further processing.