Job Description:

• 1) Controls kettles to boil oil to specified viscosity for use in making coated textile material: Pumps oil into kettle.

• 2) Lights burner with torch and monitors burners and temperature gauges to ensure that specified oil temperature is maintained.

• 3) Adds chemicals to facilitate drying when coating is applied to cloth, and stirs mixture, using paddle.

• 4) Draws sample of oil and feels oil with fingers to estimate viscosity.

• 5) Marks oil temperature and time of reading on chart for laboratory use.

• 6) Pumps oil to and from kettle through water-cooled coils to maintain specified temperature and viscosity.

• 7) Collects sample of oil for laboratory viscosity verification.

• 8) Pumps oil to storage tank.

• 9) Records amount of oil used and amount remaining in tanks.