A professional who tends equipment that extracts cereal flavoring from mixture of malt, sugar, salt, water, and other ingredients. Respnsibilities include:

• Opens valve to fill mixing tank with water.
• Dumps specified amount of malt into hopper, from which it is fed through crimping rolls and into mixing tank.
• Starts agitator revolving in tank.
• Opens valve admitting steam to tank jacket or lights gas burners to maintain specified temperature of mix for prescribed time.
• Turns valve to drain liquid into flavor tank.
• Dumps sugar, salt, and other ingredients into tank according to formula, and turns valve to pump mixture to storage tank.
• Removes spent mash from mixing tank, using hoe, and dumps it into feed trough.