A professional who operates battery of agitator-equipped tanks to blend base perfume fragrances for use in items, such as soaps, perfumes, and insecticides. Respnsibilities include:

• Rolls drums or trays of solid material into heating chamber to melt and prepare for bulking.
• Sets thermostat to prescribed temperature and leaves drums in chamber for specified period.
• Starts blower to cool chamber.
• Pushes materials to bulking area.
• Rolls trays of containers or drums of liquid material to bulking tanks.
• Dumps or pumps specified quantities into tanks.
• Starts agitators in tanks and allows materials to blend for specified periods.
• Examines materials in tanks for impurities and to determine if color conforms to standard.
• Places empty drum on preset floor scale.
• Attaches filter press hoses to outlet on blending tank and to drum intake spout.
• Opens valve to drain material from tank through filter press to drum.
• Sets thermostat at prescribed temperature and dumps flaked or crystallized material into steam-jacketed kettle to melt.
• Ties filter cloth on discharge spout, and turns spigot to drain material into bucket.
• Dumps material from bucket into casting trays and allows to cool until congealed.
• Removes congealed cubes or slabs from casting trays, using wooden mallet, and stores in plastic lined containers.
• Draws off samples from each bulked lot and labels it for laboratory files.
• Seals containers.
• Stencils lot numbers on drums or affixes labels to bottles and cans.
• Maintains record of bulking operations.
• Transports drums and other containers on trays or handtrucks to storage room.
• Cleans tanks, filter presses, and other equipment, using solvents, hoses, and brushes.
• May add prescribed chemicals to bulked materials to neutralize acid or control color.
• May blend materials by stirring with paddle.