A professional who tends equipment to mix ingredients that produce syrups used in canned fruits and preserves, flavorings, frozen novelty confections, or non-alcoholic beverages. Respnsibilities include:

• Determines amounts of ingredients, such as sugar, water, and flavoring, required for specified quantity of syrup of designated specific gravity, using sugar concentration and dilution charts.
• Opens valve to admit liquid sugar and water into mixer, or dumps crystalline sugar into mixer and admits water.
• Adds flavoring ingredients and starts mixer to make syrup.
• Opens valve to admit steam into jacket of mixer to invert sugar, eliminate air, and sterilize syrup.
• Tests syrup for sugar content, using hydrometer or refractometer.
• Pumps syrup to storage tank.
• May filter syrup to remove impurities and be designated Syrup Filterer.
• May blend raw syrups and be designated Syrup Blender.