A professional who tends machine that dices, halves, slices, or slivers almond meats. Respnsibilities include:

• Installs specified cutting blades, using handtools.
• Actuates machine to start flow of almond meats into machine.
• Examines cut almond meats to check for conformance with cutting specifications.
• Adjusts cutting blades as required.
• Inserts different blades into machine to accommodate various sizes of almonds.
• Sharpens blades with file or bench grinder. May be designated according to function of machine tended as Dicer-Machine Operator; Halver-Machine Operator; Slicer-Machine Operator; Sliver-Machine Operator.