Job Description:

• 1) Operates machines to grind cooked wood chips into pulp and blend pulp with other specified ingredients in manufacture of wallboard: Turns handwheel to adjust grinding-plate settings.

• 2) Starts machines and adjusts panel controls to maintain level in pulp and water chests and regulate flow of chips through grinding machines.

• 3) Observes charts, dials, and gauges; and adjusts levers, valves, and panel controls to regulate flow of specified amounts of pulp, alum, wax, asphalt, and starch into blending machine.

• 4) May weigh samples of wet and dry pulp on scales and calculate moisture content.

• 5) May test pulp for freeness, fineness, density, and breakage.

• 6) May record production and test data.