Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders — Tasks

Task statements

• Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to requirements.
• Read work orders to determine production specifications or information.
• Observe production or monitor equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.
• Mix or blend ingredients by starting machines and mixing for specified times.
• Stop mixing or blending machines when specified product qualities are obtained and open valves and start pumps to transfer mixtures.
• Compound or process ingredients or dyes, according to formulas.
• Examine materials, ingredients, or products visually or with hands to ensure conformance to established standards.
• Operate or tend machines to mix or blend any of a wide variety of materials, such as spices, dough batter, tobacco, fruit juices, chemicals, livestock feed, food products, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.
• Dump or pour specified amounts of materials into machinery or equipment.
• Record operational or production data on specified forms.
• Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory testing.
• Unload mixtures into containers or onto conveyors for further processing.
• Clean work areas.
• Add or mix chemicals or ingredients for processing, using hand tools or other devices.
• Tend accessory equipment, such as pumps or conveyors, to move materials or ingredients through production processes.
• Transfer materials, supplies, or products between work areas, using moving equipment or hand tools.
• Clean and maintain equipment, using hand tools.
• Dislodge and clear jammed materials or other items from machinery or equipment, using hand tools.
• Test samples of materials or products to ensure compliance with specifications, using test equipment.
• Open valves to drain slurry from mixers into storage tanks.