Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that cleans, moisturizes, and cracks wheat for cereal products, preparatory to cooking: Starts conveyors to transfer wheat from storage to vibrating screens in grading and cleaning units.

• 2) Sets thermostat at specified temperature to heat water used to wash grain and increase moisture content to designated value.

• 3) Turns valves and moves controls to regulate flow of water and grain through washer and soaking bin and to transfer grain to grinder rolls for cracking.

• 4) Observes process to correct conveyor jamming and to open plugged holes in separator screens.