Job Description:

• 1) Tends retort or vacuum chamber that fumigates or sterilizes used mattresses: Loads mattresses on dollies and pushes them into chamber.

• 2) Closes and bolts chamber door.

• 3) Starts vacuum pump to remove air from chamber.

• 4) Opens valves to control flow of fumigating or sterilizing gases into chamber, observing gauges and scale readings.

• 5) Pumps gases from chamber and replaces gases with fresh air.

• 6) Opens chamber door and removes loaded dollies.

• 7) May tend fumigating device, used inside chamber, that produces fumes from heated chemicals.

• 8) May tend oven to sterilize mattresses with hot air.