A professional who operates centrifugal separator, pressure cooker, drum drier, hammer mill, and air separator to process Irish moss (carrageen) into powdered stabilizer used in food processing. Respnsibilities include:

• Pumps boiled mixture from holding tank into centrifugal separator and starts machine to separate moss from mixture.
• Pumps mixture from centrifuge to pressure cooker.
• Weighs out and adds specified amounts of powdered ingredients.
• Turns steam valve and observes pressure gauges on pressure cooker to cook mixture for specified time.
• Pumps mixture to drier and turns valve to heat drier to prescribed temperature and reduce product to solid form.
• Starts screw conveyor to carry mixture out of drier through hammer mill and air separator to pulverize and deposit product in containers for storage.
• May draw sample of product and perform tests, using meters, or submit sample for testing.