A professional who records data pertaining to receiving, storing, and shipping of grain at grain elevators. Respnsibilities include:

• Examines bin slips or track list to determine type, destination, and estimated weight of railroad car.
• Signals workers to dump or load cars, using bell, light, or telephone.
• Pulls lever to open slide gate on storage hopper to dump grain into scale hopper.
• Weighs grain and inserts ticket into automatic recorder on scale that stamps weight on ticket.
• Notifies government inspector to examine beam scale balance and stamped ticket.
• Records weight, description, and destination of grain shipped and received.
• Keeps charts indicating location and contents of storage tanks.
• Assigns workers to jobs according to work schedules, and reviews timecards.
• Grades and weighs grain samples, using hand graders and scales, and records results.
• Reads thermometers on control panel to ascertain grain temperatures at various levels in storage tank.
• May start conveyors, select flow pipes, set trippers, and select storage tanks to convey grain into storage or to loading department.