What are the responsibilities and job description for the Feed Mill Control Room Operator position at Peco Foods?
Summary:
- This position tends machines that mix stock or poultry feed according to formula and conveys it to packing machine or storage:
- Dumps specified number of sacks of meal, mash, grain, and meat scrap into machine hopper, or presses buttons on control panel to transfer individual ingredients from separate bins to batch scale hopper until specified weight of each ingredient is obtained.
- Weighs additives, such as minerals and vitamins, and dumps them into hopper.
- Starts machine to mix ingredients, and start elevators and conveyors to transfer feed to storage tanks or packing machine hoppers.
- May tend machines that automatically weigh out specified amounts of mash and grain prior to mixing with ingredients and be designated Feeder Operator, Automatic (grain-feed mills).
