A professional who controls equipment to mill flaked adhesive from slurry of flour and water. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns valves or moves levers or side gates to admit steam into pressure cooker to cook milk (slurry of flour and water).
• Opens discharge line after specified period, and signals worker to pump milk paste onto heated rollers that dry paste.
• Adjusts distance between rollers to maintain specified thickness of paste and activates knives that cut paste into flakes.
• Opens hopper chutes to dump flakes into rotating screen cylinder that sifts flakes and transfers them to storage bins.
• Measures temperature of milk at specified intervals, using thermometer, and tests viscosity of milk, using viscometer.
• Determines moisture content of flakes by feeling them or by using moisture meter.
• Weighs standard cupful of paste to determine its density and adjusts water and steam valves to regulate density.
• Inspects equipment to detect malfunctions.