A professional who tends flotation cleaner that removes materials, such as pod fragments, leaves, or thistles from peas and other vegetables preparatory to canning or freezing. Respnsibilities include:

• Mixes emulsion solution with water, according to standard formula.
• Turns valves to fill supply and separator tanks, and pretreater with water, and starts heater, pretreater pump, and recovery reel.
• Starts separator pump and pours emulsion and oil into air inlet pipe.
• Pulls lever to allow vegetables to flow into separator tank which floats foreign material out over recovery reel screen.
• May weigh sample of cleaned peas and compute weight loss.