Job Description:

• 1) Operates hydraulic filter machine to remove foreign matter from plastics material: Cuts plastics dough into slabs, using knife, or rolls material into lump and packs it into cylinder.

• 2) Selects and installs wire and cloth strainers and die heads in machine, according to type and form of material, using handtools.

• 3) Adjusts controls of hydraulic ram, according to pressure gauge reading, and starts machine to force material through strainers.

• 4) Cleans strainers, die head, and machine cylinder, using brushes, scrapers, and solvents.

• 5) Records amounts and type of dough strained.