Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that boils, agitates, bleaches, and cleans tallow: Turns valves to drain specified amount of tallow from storage tank into bleaching tank and to create vacuum inside tank when vacuum bleaching method is used.

• 2) Moves controls to heat tank with steam and maintain specified temperature.

• 3) Admits specified amount of carbon and diatomaceous earth into bleaching tank and starts agitator.

• 4) Draws sample from tank and pours it through filter paper, observing its color for conformance to specifications.

• 5) Adds tallow or diatomaceous earth to tank as required.

• 6) Opens valves to force tallow by steam pressure through filter press to remove foreign material and into storage tank.