Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that converts liquid carbon dioxide into dry ice: Turns valves to transfer liquid carbon dioxide to batch tank for weighing, and to expansion chamber where snow is formed by sudden release of pressure.

• 2) Pushes lever of press to lower hydraulic ram that compresses snow into cakes.

• 3) Pushes cakes onto conveyor that carries them under power saws that cut cakes to specified size and transfers them onto scale.

• 4) Weighs cakes on scale, records weight, and covers dry ice with paper.

• 5) Lifts ice into insulated box.

• 6) Tends booster pumps to fill cylinders with liquid carbon dioxide under pressure.

• 7) May tend automated system that converts liquid carbon dioxide into dry ice.