A professional who controls kettles to boil oil to specified viscosity for use in making coated textile material. Respnsibilities include:

• Pumps oil into kettle.
• Lights burner with torch and monitors burners and temperature gauges to ensure that specified oil temperature is maintained.
• Adds chemicals to facilitate drying when coating is applied to cloth, and stirs mixture, using paddle.
• Draws sample of oil and feels oil with fingers to estimate viscosity.
• Marks oil temperature and time of reading on chart for laboratory use.
• Pumps oil to and from kettle through water-cooled coils to maintain specified temperature and viscosity.
• Collects sample of oil for laboratory viscosity verification.
• Pumps oil to storage tank.
• Records amount of oil used and amount remaining in tanks.