Job Description:

• 1) Tends battery of machines that clean rough grain preparatory to milling, and mill, brush, grade, and polish grain: Starts machines, such as shelling stones, grain hullers, paddy separators, grain brush, grain cleaning machine, and grain polisher.

• 2) Turns wheels to adjust feeder equipment of machines.

• 3) Turns valves to regulate flow of compressed air into machines to blow chaff and dust from grain.

• 4) Examines grain during processing to ensure that production and quality standards are met.

• 5) Adjusts machines.

• 6) Opens gates on feed pipes to route grain to designated milling machines.

• 7) Performs maintenance duties, such as scraping sieves in machine with stick to remove dirt, straw, or other foreign material, lubricating equipment, and tightening belts, bolts, and nuts, using mechanics handtools.

• 8) Gauges height of grain in storage tank, using tape measure.

• 9) Converts measurement to number of bushels in bin, using conversion chart.