A professional who tends machine that cuts tobacco into granular form and screens dust and coarse particles from granulated tobacco. Respnsibilities include:

• Starts conveyor, cutting knives, fans, and screens.
• Shovels tobacco into hopper and shoves tobacco between feed rolls of machine that carry tobacco under cutting knives.
• Observes screening process and removes foreign material left in screened tobacco.
• Places boxes or trucks at discharge end of machine to catch granulated tobacco.