Job Description:

• 1) Controls equipment to cook liquid sugar to produce caramel coloring or molasses: Turns valves to fill vessels with liquid sugar and adds specified amounts of salts or caustic solution.

• 2) Observes thermometers and gauges and turns valves to regulate steam pressure and cooking temperature in vessels.

• 3) Draws samples of material and performs standard tests to ascertain acid content and specific gravity, and to verify color, using pH meter, hydrometer, and colorimeter.

• 4) Records test results.

• 5) Turns valves or starts pumps to transfer material to evaporator feed tanks, filter supply tanks, or to storage or tank cars.

• 6) May tend filters to remove undesirable solids from caramel coloring.