A professional who tends equipment and machinery that converts viscous soap into flakes and removes excess moisture from flakes. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns valves to admit refrigerated water into rollers to chill them to specified temperature to harden soap.
• Opens valve to allow viscous soap to flow from crutcher machine into chamber equipped with chilling rollers.
• Starts rollers to press soap into sheets.
• Adjusts flaking knives that cut sheets of soap into flakes.
• Turns valve to regulate flow of flakes into drier.
• Turns valves to admit steam to drying cylinders and oven jackets to heat drier to specified temperature.
• Removes sample of dried flakes and tests for moisture content, using moisture testing apparatus.
• Adjusts temperatures accordingly.
• Opens valve to discharge dried flakes onto conveyor belt leading to storage bins.
• May sharpen flaking knives, using hand file.
• May tend equipment to convert liquid insecticide into flakes and be designated Flaker Operator.