Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment and machinery that converts viscous soap into flakes and removes excess moisture from flakes: Turns valves to admit refrigerated water into rollers to chill them to specified temperature to harden soap.

• 2) Opens valve to allow viscous soap to flow from crutcher machine into chamber equipped with chilling rollers.

• 3) Starts rollers to press soap into sheets.

• 4) Adjusts flaking knives that cut sheets of soap into flakes.

• 5) Turns valve to regulate flow of flakes into drier.

• 6) Turns valves to admit steam to drying cylinders and oven jackets to heat drier to specified temperature.

• 7) Removes sample of dried flakes and tests for moisture content, using moisture testing apparatus.

• 8) Adjusts temperatures accordingly.

• 9) Opens valve to discharge dried flakes onto conveyor belt leading to storage bins.

• 10) May sharpen flaking knives, using hand file.

• 11) May tend equipment to convert liquid insecticide into flakes and be designated Flaker Operator.