A professional who tends vat to cook blended cheeses or cheese curd and other ingredients to make process cheese. Respnsibilities include:

• Starts agitator and signals for cheese to be dropped into vat.
• Turns steam valve and observes thermometer to heat vat to specified temperature.
• Measures or weighs out prescribed ingredients, such as sodium citrate, disodium phosphate, and cream, using scale and measuring glass.
• Dumps ingredients into vat.
• Cooks mixture at specified temperature for specified time or observes consistency of mixture to determine when it is cooked to specifications.
• Pulls lever to drain cheese into hopper or bucket.
• May pump cheese through viscolizer to achieve finer texture.
• May mix unheated cheese or cheese curd and other ingredients to make cold pack cheese or creamed cheese and be designated Cream-Cheese Maker.