A professional who tends agitator and auxiliary equipment to mix pigments according to specifications for use in ground coating and coloring on wallpaper. Respnsibilities include:

• Measures and mixes ingredients in electric agitator to make sizing compounds.
• Dumps bags of powdered clay into mixing vat, and turns valves to add water.
• Starts pump to transport specified quantity of sizing compound from drum into mixing vat, and starts agitator.
• Loosens lumps of clay from sides of vat during mixing process, using paddle.
• Moves drums of base solution about work area, using handtruck.