Job Description:

• 1) Installs and services automatic milking systems in barns and milkhouses, using handtools and power tools: Confers with customer to ascertain needs, sketches layout, and estimates costs for optimum equipment layout.

• 2) Drills holes and bolts milking equipment, such as control panels, pumps, wash sinks, feed stalls, and gates, in specified locations.

• 3) Cuts metal pipe to specified length, using hacksaw and vise.

• 4) Installs and levels piping system, using pipe cutters, wrenches, and spirit level.

• 5) Starts vacuum pump, calibrates vacuum gauges, and connects test instruments, such as pulsation recorder and stability gauge, to monitor system performance.

• 6) Dismantles and cleans system.

• 7) Replaces defective or malfunctioning system parts, using wrenches and washing equipment.