A professional who controls semiautomatic equipment, from control panel, to blend ingredients for bread and deposit specified quantity of dough in baking pans. Respnsibilities include:

• Notifies other workers to admit broth into feedlines and to start loading specified size pans onto conveyor.
• Turns handwheel to adjust conveyor guides to size of pans.
• Starts flour sifter, premixer that blends ingredients, and developer that kneads dough, working from remote control panel.
• Observes dials and recording instruments to verify temperature of broth, viscosity of dough, and speed of mixing units.
• Feels dough emerging from developer to ascertain that consistency meets plant standard.
• Turns developer speed control to specified setting and starts divider blades that pinch off and drop dough into pans passing on conveyor.
• Turns handwheel and control bar to adjust discharge aperture above divider blades so that dough is uniformly shaped and deposited in center of pan.
• Weighs sample pieces of dough and turns divider speed handle to regulate amount of dough deposited in pans.
• Records temperatures, viscosity, and feed rate from instrument readings.