A professional who tends numerically controlled equipment that automatically mixes oil, water, and mixture of grain products to make dough used in production of snack foods. Respnsibilities include:

• Reads chart to determine time intervals and sequence for adding oil and water and length of mixing cycle.
• Pulls knobs to activate control panel and observes lights and dials to verify that panel is functioning.
• Inspects sections of mixing equipment, such as agitator blades, drum of mixer, and feed hopper to verify that equipment is clean.
• Adds emulsifier and contents of oil drum into reservoir prior to mixing process, using air-powered pump.
• Selects and pushes wheeled container of preweighed mixture of grain products or dough scrap into automatic locking device of mixer elevator.
• Presses specified buttons on control panel to purge air from oil and water lines, open drum door of mixer, raise and dump contents of container into mixer, and activate mixer.
• Observes digital timer and presses buttons at specified intervals to add predetermined amounts of oil and water, stop mixing process, and dispense dough onto conveyor for further processing.
• Observes oil and water pipes during mixing process to ensure that oil and water are flowing into mixer.
• Feels dough on conveyor to detect defects, such as excessively dry, moist, or lumpy dough.
• Scoops cup of dough from initial batch of mix for quality assurance testing.
• Notifies supervisor of dough not meeting mixing standards and of equipment malfunction.