A professional who tends tanks, vats, or drums in which sheepskins are pickled. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns valves to fill equipment with water.
• Weighs and dumps specified amounts of lime, salt, detergents, and acid into separate tanks.
• Throws slats (sheepskins less wool), by hand or using tongs, into lime tank to remove fat and flesh, into detergent tank to remove traces of lime, and into salt and acid tank to pickle slats.
• Starts agitators in tanks and empties and refills tanks.
• May perform all processes, using rotating drum, and be designated Pickling-Drum Operator (meat products).
• May be known according to specific task performed as Lime-Vat Tender (meat products).