A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in mixing, grinding, thinning, tinting, cooking, or clarifying pigments and other ingredients used in making paints and related products. Respnsibilities include:

• Plans production schedules to coordinate departmental activities.
• Verifies batch tickets for compliance with master formula.
• Calculates batch quantities to ensure utilization of production capacity.
• Evaluates laboratory control-test results and tests batches of paint, using equipment such as grind-gauge, colorimeter, and viscometer, to verify adherence to specifications.
• Trains new workers.
• Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
• May be designated according to activities of workers supervised as grinding supervisor; mixing supervisor; thinning-tinting supervisor.