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Intro
Pulp mill machine operators operate and monitor various types of processing machinery and equipment to produce pulp. They are employed by pulp and paper companies.
There is limited mobility among jobs within this occupational group.
Progression to pulping control operator is possible with experience.
Main Duties
Pulp mill machine operators perform some or all of the following duties:
- Operate and monitor screening equipment, bleaching equipment, digesters, mixing tanks, washers, and other pulp processing machinery and equipment to carry out one or more cellulose processing steps
- Observe equipment and machinery panel indicators, gauges, level indicators and other equipment instruments to detect machinery and equipment malfunctions and ensure process steps are carried out according to specifications
- Communicate with pulping control operator to make process adjustments and start up or shut down machinery and equipment as required
- Collect processing samples and conduct titration tests, pH readings, specific density tests and other routine tests on pulp and solutions
- Complete and maintain production reports.
Employment Requirements
- Completion of secondary school is required.
- A college diploma in forest products processing or a related subject may be required.
- Completion of several weeks of formal company training and several months of on-the-job training is required.
- Previous experience as a pulp mill labourer within the same company is usually required.
- A certificate in industrial first aid may be required.
All Titles
- acid maker – pulp and paper
- assistant bleacher operator – pulp and paper
- assistant digester operator
- assistant digester operator – pulp and paper
- baler – pulp and paper
- batch digester operator
- batch process cook – pulp and paper
- beater operator – pulp and paper
- bleach boiler tender
- bleach field operator – pulp and paper
- bleach liquor maker, pulp
- bleach stock preparation operator – pulp and paper
- bleacher operator – pulp and paper
- bleacher tender – pulp and paper
- bleacher, rag stock
- blow pit tender – pulp and paper
- breaker – pulp and paperbreakerman – pulp and paper, breakerwoman – pulp and paper
- breaker tender – pulp and paper
- breakerman/woman – pulp and paper
- broke beater tender – pulp and paper
- brown stock operator – pulp and paper
- brown stock washer – pulp and paper
- caustic plant operator
- causticizer operator
- causticizing operator – pulp and paper
- centri-cleaner tender – pulp and paper
- chemical liquor preparation operator – pulp and paper
- chemical pulping plant operator – pulp and paper
- chemical solutions operator – pulp and paper
- chemi-thermomechanical pulp (CTMP) machine assistant operator
- chemi-thermomechanical pulp (CTMP) operator
- chemi-wash operator – pulp and paper
- continuous digester operator – pulp and paper
- continuous process cook – pulp and paper
- cook – pulp and paper
- cook’s first helper – pulp and paper
- CTMP (chemi-thermomechanical pulp) machine assistant operator
- CTMP (chemi-thermomechanical pulp) operator
- decker tender – pulp and paper
- deckerman/woman – pulp and paperdeckerman – pulp and paper, deckerwoman – pulp and paper
- digester cook – pulp and paper
- digester field operator
- digester operator – pulp and paper
- digester tender – pulp and paper
- dryer tender, insulation boards
- evaporator tender – pulp and paper
- field operator – pulp and paper
- filterman/woman – pulp and paperfilterman – pulp and paper, filterwoman – pulp and paper
- grinder loader – pulp and paper
- grinder operator – pulp and paper
- grinderman/woman – pulp and papergrinderman – pulp and paper, grinderwoman – pulp and paper
- kiln-recaust operator – pulp and paper
- lime kiln operator – pulp and paper
- lime sludge mixer
- liquor maker – pulp and paper
- mixing operator – pulp and paper
- operator, bleacher – pulp and paper
- operator, digester – pulp and paper
- operator, pulp refiner – pulp and paper
- operator, pulp washer – pulp and paper
- operator, thermomechanical pulp
- paper pulp tester
- pulp and paper size maker
- pulp baler – pulp and paper
- pulp bleach liquor maker
- pulp cook
- pulp dryer operator
- pulp grader
- pulp maker
- pulp mill equipment operator
- pulp mill machine operator
- pulp refiner operator – pulp and paper
- pulp tester – pulp and paper
- pulp washer
- pulp washer operator – pulp and paper
- pulpwood products tester
- recovery operator – pulp and paper
- refiner – pulp and paperrefiner man – pulp and paper, refiner woman – pulp and paper
- refiner man/woman – pulp and paper
- refiner operator – pulp and paper
- repulper operator
- screen room operator – pulp and paper
- screen tender – pulp and paper
- screenman/woman – pulp and paperscreenman – pulp and paper, screenwoman – pulp and paper
- size maker, pulp and paper
- stock tester – pulp and paper
- stock washer – pulp and paper
- tall oil operator
- tender, broke beater – pulp and paper
- thermomechanical pulp assistant operator
- thermomechanical pulp assistant operator – pulp and paper
- thermomechanical pulp operator
- unbleached pulp washer – pulp and paper
- washer operator, pulp
- washerman/woman – pulp and paperwasherman – pulp and paper, washerwoman – pulp and paper
- washing-screening operator – pulp and paper
- wood pulp caustic liquor maker
Exclusions
- Labourers in wood, pulp and paper processing (9614)
- Pulping, papermaking and coating control operators (9235)
- Supervisors, forest products processing (9215)