Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment to clean and spray interiors of aluminum or steel beer barrels or kegs, performing any combination of following tasks: Tends drilling machine to remove plastic or wood cork from bunghole.

• 2) Lifts barrel onto conveyor for transfer to washing or pitching machine.

• 3) Tends washing or pitching machine that cleans or coats barrels with pitch.

• 4) Observes gauges and thermometers and turns valves to maintain temperatures at specified operating levels.

• 5) Dumps bags of pitch into machine pots.

• 6) Screws metal plugs into tap and bungholes.

• 7) Unscrews plugs from pitched barrels, wipes holes with rags to remove excess pitch, and hammers cork into taphole.

• 8) Inserts light into barrel and inspects interior surfaces for dents, holes, dirt, and completeness of pitch coverage.

• 9) Loads and unloads conveyors.

• 10) Stacks barrels on floor.