Job Description:

• 1) Controls equipment to cook grain meal to prepare mash for fermentation process prior to distillation into alcohol, gin, or whiskey: Fills cooker with water and opens valves to admit steam that circulates through pipes in vat and heats water to specified temperature.

• 2) Pumps ground meal from meal tank into hopper, balanced on scale, to weigh specified amount and turns handwheels to regulate flow of meal into cooker.

• 3) Starts revolving blades in cooker to agitate mixture as it cooks.

• 4) Observes temperature gauges to ascertain temperature of mixture in cooker and turns valves to increase or decrease temperature.

• 5) Cooks mash for specified time and pumps cooked mash into cooling tub.

• 6) Pumps cooled mash into fermenting tank.

• 7) Opens valves to admit compressed air, through perforated pipes at bottom of fermenting tank, to keep meal in suspension as it flows from cooling tub into fermenting tank.