A professional who operates dry cleaning machine to clean garments, drapes, and other materials, utilizing knowledge of cleaning processes, fabrics, and colors. Respnsibilities include:

• Sorts articles, places lot of sorted articles in drum of dry cleaning machine.
• Fastens cover and starts drum rotating.
• Turns or pushes valves, levers, and switches to admit cleaning solvent into drum.
• Adds liquid soap or chemicals to facilitate cleaning process.
• Tends extractor that removes excess cleaning solvent from articles.
• Tends tumbler that dries articles and removes odor of solvent from articles.
• Opens valves of dry cleaning machine to drain dirty solvent into filter tank.
• Adds chemicals to solvent to facilitate filtration, and starts electric pumps, forcing solvent through filters to screen lint, dirt, and other impurities.
• Pulls sludge box from bottom of tank to remove sludge.
• Starts electric pumps and turns valves to operate distilling system that reclaims dirty solvent.
• May operate dry cleaning machine that automatically extracts excess cleaning solvent from articles.
• May clean by hand articles that cannot be cleaned by machine because of amount of soil on article or delicacy of fabric.
• May add chemicals to dry cleaning machine to render garments water repellant.
• May spot articles.