Job Description:

• 1) Tends mixing tanks and auxiliary equipment to combine acids or other specified liquid ingredients to produce solutions for manufacturing explosives, such as nitroglycerin, tetryl, and TNT: Pumps specified liquids through metering or weighing tanks into mixing tank.

• 2) Starts tank agitator to mix ingredients for specified time.

• 3) Draws samples of product for laboratory analysis and transfers additional ingredients to tank until product meets plant standard.

• 4) Pumps mixed product to storage, tank cars, or other processing units.

• 5) May turn steam or coolant valves to heat or cool product during mixing, maintaining temperature in equipment within prescribed limits as indicated by tank thermometer.

• 6) May maintain records of mixing time, gauge readings, and number of batches produced for shift log.

• 7) May be designated according to product produced as Ammonium-Nitrate Neutralizer; Dimethylaniline-Sulfator Operator.