Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment to weigh oils and other ingredients used in making margarine or shortening, following standard formulas: Starts pump, and turns valve to admit ingredients into scale tank until specified weight has been reached.

• 2) Positions weights on scale bar to weigh additives or smaller batches of ingredients.

• 3) Records weights of ingredients.

• 4) Turns valves to empty weighed ingredients from scale tanks into mixing vat for blending.

• 5) May turn valve to admit air into scale tanks to agitate and mix ingredients.