Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that mixes, blends, or kneads ingredients to make dry-food products, such as baking powder, gelatin desserts, pie thickeners, and ice cream powders: Weighs or measures ingredients and dumps them into mixer or opens valve to admit specified amounts of each ingredient into mixer from storage hopper.

• 2) Admits steam or coolant into jacket of mixer and sets thermostat to maintain temperature in mixer at specified level.

• 3) Regulates mixing time and speed for mixing, blending, or kneading, and starts machine.

• 4) May perform acidity tests, using pH meter or may submit samples to laboratory.

• 5) May add additional ingredients and remix batch on basis of test results or laboratory recommendation.

• 6) May start conveyor to transfer dry-food product to next process.

• 7) May be designated according to food product mixed as Baking-Powder Mixer.