Job Description:

• 1) Controls equipment to filter, transfer, and remove bubbles from viscose fluid used in manufacturing rayon or cellophane: Turns valves to transfer viscose from mixing station to filter presses that remove impurities and to vacuum tanks that remove air bubbles.

• 2) Observes gauges and adjusts controls to maintain specified temperature, pressure, and feed rate in equipment and pipes.

• 3) May tend tanks to age viscose for specified time before transfer to casting units.

• 4) May record aging time, viscose output, and gauge readings.

• 5) May be designated Viscose-Cellar Attendant in plants producing rayon by viscose process.