A professional who cleans and sterilizes machinery, utensils, and equipment used to process or store products, such as chemicals, paint, food, or beverages. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns valves to drain machines or tanks and disconnects pipes, using wrenches.
• Sprays machines, tanks, and conveyors with water to loosen and remove dirt or other foreign matter.
• Scrubs machines, tanks, tables, pans, bowls, compartments, and conveyors, using brushes, rags, cleaning preparations, and diluted acids.
• Rinses articles with water, and dries them with compressed air.
• Scrubs floors and walls, using brushes, rags, and diluted acids.
• Connects hoses and lines to pump and starts pump to circulate cleaning and sterilizing solution through hoses and lines.
• Scrubs interior of disconnected pipes, valves, spigots, gauges, and meters, using spiral brushes.
• Mixes cleaning solutions and diluted acids, according to formula.
• Draws off samples of cleaning solutions from mixing tanks for laboratory analysis.
• May replace defective sections of metal coils and lines, using handtools, soldering iron, and pipe couplings.
• May lubricate machinery.
• May be designated according to equipment cleaned as Beer-Coil Cleaner; Lard-Tub Washer (meat products); Line Cleaner; Pipe Washer.
• May sterilize equipment and be designated Equipment Sterilizer.