A professional who tends machine that mashes peas and registers force required to crush them to ascertain hardness (maturity) and grades peas. Respnsibilities include:

• Fills measured pail with pea sample and weighs sample, using scale.
• Washes and cleans sample to remove debris, such as thistles and weeds, reweighs sample, and calculates percentage of waste per load of peas based on sample.
• Pours pea sample into top of size grader and counts number of peas in each grade level to calculate percentage of each grade of pea in crop.
• Dumps cleaned peas on grid of machine and closes cover.
• Starts motor to rotate disks of grid which mash peas and simultaneously registers force required on dial.
• Repeats test on second sample from same pan and records dial readings.
• Records average force required to mash peas, which determines quality of product.
• Inserts slip showing quality into container.