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Mud-Mixer Operator

DOT Code: 570.685-070

Industry: smelt. & refin.; steel & rel.
Alternate Titles: mixer operator; mud grinder; mud-mill operator

Tends mixer that makes lute used for sealing oven doors or tap holes in furnaces: Shovels specified amounts of materials, such as sand and clay, into mixing pan. Turns valve to add water, starts machine, and mixes materials with paddle as pan rotates to obtain specified consistency. Shovels lute into transfer truck. May be designated according to material mixed as Adobe-Ball Mixer (smelt. & refin.); Clay Mixer (steel & rel.); or machine used as Wet-Pan Mixer (smelt. & refin.; steel & rel.).

GOE: 06.04.17 STRENGTH: H GED: R2 M1 L1 SVP: 2 DLU: 77