Job Description:

• 1) Controls equipment to melt, cook, and mix ingredients, such as gums, oils, turpentine, and naphtha, for use in manufacture of varnishes: Weighs gum and dumps it into gum pot or agitator tank over burner.

• 2) Pours in oil, as gum becomes liquid, and adjusts burner controls to regulate heat.

• 3) Controls burners to cook mixture for specified time.

• 4) Starts pump to transfer varnish base and thinner into reducing tank.

• 5) Starts agitator to mix base and thinner for specified time.

• 6) Fills test tube with varnish and compares viscosity with standard sample, or delivers test tube to laboratory for test.

• 7) Pumps varnish through filter press to remove sediment from varnish.