A professional who tends equipment to clean and spray interiors of aluminum or steel beer barrels or kegs, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:

• Tends drilling machine to remove plastic or wood cork from bunghole.
• Lifts barrel onto conveyor for transfer to washing or pitching machine.
• Tends washing or pitching machine that cleans or coats barrels with pitch.
• Observes gauges and thermometers and turns valves to maintain temperatures at specified operating levels.
• Dumps bags of pitch into machine pots.
• Screws metal plugs into tap and bungholes.
• Unscrews plugs from pitched barrels, wipes holes with rags to remove excess pitch, and hammers cork into taphole.
• Inserts light into barrel and inspects interior surfaces for dents, holes, dirt, and completeness of pitch coverage.
• Loads and unloads conveyors.
• Stacks barrels on floor.