A professional who operates equipment to mix and cook ingredients to produce flavoring extracts and syrup. Respnsibilities include:

• Scans formula sheet to determine proportion of ingredients required, such as sugar, water, and flavoring.
• Pushes buttons to admit automatically metered ingredients into blending tank and to activate mixer.
• Observes mixture to ensure that color and consistency conform to company specifications.
• Pushes buttons to pump mixture to cooking kettle.
• Opens valves to admit steam into pressure cooker to invert sugar, eliminate air, and sterilize syrup.
• Observes gauges and adjusts valves to regulate temperature and pressure while cooking mixture.
• Presses switch to activate paddles to stir mixture and prevent scorching.
• Tests batch to determine viscosity or specific gravity and sugar content, using viscometer, hydrometer, and refractometer.
• Presses switches to activate equipment to filter impurities and pump syrup into holding tanks.
• Maintains production records.