Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that controls temperature and humidity in rotating drums or compartments in which barley is germinated to produce malt: Starts fans that force and circulate moist, heated air into drums or compartments.

• 2) Moves damper counterweights or lowers handle to adjust and obtain specified temperature and humidity.

• 3) Adds water to drum, using metered hose, or starts screw-type mixing machine equipped with water sprayer to ensure uniformity of germination.

• 4) Removes sample of germinated barley from drum or compartment for laboratory analysis.

• 5) Records such data concerned with malting cycle as air and water temperature and humidity content.