Job Description:

• 1) Operates battery of machines to refine pulp and shorten fibers as pulp flows continuously through machines to prepare pulp for papermaking: Turns handwheels to adjust distance between bedplate and rotor knives to obtain specified fineness of fibers.

• 2) Starts machines and pumps to regulate flow of pulp from beater chests through refining machines to paper machine chest.

• 3) Examines pulp, reviews laboratory test reports, and adjusts machines to ensure that pulp meets specifications.

• 4) May change bedplates and rotor knives, using handtools.

• 5) May clean interior of storage chests, using water hose.