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Cooker Tender

DOT Code: 553.665-022

Industry: oils & grease

Tends cookers that melt grease and tallow from offal, bone, and meat: Turns valves to admit steam to cooker (steam-jacketed tank equipped with revolving, power-driven paddles for agitating material) until indicator on steam pressure gauge reaches specified point. Turns handwheel or lifts lever to open discharge gate of cooker when light indicates material is ready for further processing. Starts (reverses) agitator paddles that force cooked material into vat or conveyor hopper. Signals Cooker Loader (oils & grease) or Overhead Crane Operator (any industry) 921.663-010 to refill cooker. May shovel cooked material from vat into conveyor hopper. May load cookers. May pull material from cooker, using hoe.

GOE: 06.04.19 STRENGTH: H GED: R2 M1 L1 SVP: 2 DLU: 77