A professional who tends molding machine that casts articles, such as pots, cups, trays, and synthetic soil blocks from pulp slurry. Respnsibilities include:

• Opens valve to admit water into pulp-mixing vat.
• Weighs and dumps specified amounts of scrap paper, rosin, wax, and other binders into vat.
• Transfers mixed slurry to storage tank or slurry tank.
• Activates forming heads to dip molds into slurry tank.
• Monitors operation of vacuum suction that fills forms or molds.
• Weighs amount of slurry gathered in random molds to ensure quality control.
• Adjusts timers to control curing and drying cycles.
• Observes pickup die which removes cured articles from forming heads or molds.
• Cleans residue from molds, using water hose.
• May tend machine that forms fiber pipe or conduit around mandrels of specified sizes and be designated Forming-Machine Operator (paper & pulp).