A professional who controls equipment and tends machines to produce variety of pharmaceutical and toilet products or ingredients, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:

• Weighs and measures out coating ingredients and coats medicinal tablets.
• Tends mixing machine and heated kettles to prepare specified ingredients for ointments, creams, liquid medications, powders, gums, and similar drug products, adding ingredients according to formulas.
• Tends milling and grinding machines that reduce mixtures to designated sized particles, or grinds materials with mortar and pestle.
• Prepares granulated products.
• Tends filter presses, sifting machines, autoclaves, water stills, and related equipment to prepare ingredients for further processing.
• Operates machine to compress ingredients into tablets.
• Inspects, weighs, and tests hardness of tablets.
• May be designated according to substance prepared as Liquid Compounder.