A professional who tends machine that compresses loose salt into blocks for use as cattle feed supplement. Respnsibilities include:

• Opens gate to transfer premixed salt from bin to measuring hopper.
• Starts press that automatically admits measured amount of salt into compression chamber, compresses salt into blocks, and ejects blocks onto chute.
• Lifts blocks from chute and stacks them on pallet.
• Cleans machine.
• May fortify salt by adding and mixing specified amounts of potassium iodide or other fortifiers to salt before it is compressed into blocks.