Job Description:

• 1) Controls equipment to blend butadiene-styrene latexes together with processing oils, stabilizers, and other additives to produce various kinds of synthetic rubber according to formulas: Turns valves to connect pipelines from storage tanks to blending tanks or weigh tanks.

• 2) Starts pumps and agitators.

• 3) Turns valves to discharge blended materials from tanks into streams for coagulation.

• 4) Pumps latex into blending tanks to obtain specified mixtures.

• 5) Gauges tank or observes markings on side of tank to verify specified volumes of each type of latex.

• 6) Observes dials and pumps specified amounts of additive materials into weigh tanks.

• 7) Discharges additives into blending tanks.

• 8) Takes samples of blends for laboratory testing.

• 9) Records blend data in logs.