A professional who operates machines and equipment to freeze, cut, harden, and wrap stickless ice cream novelties. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns valve and sets thermostat to circulate refrigerant and maintain specified temperature in hardening box.
• Inserts forming fixtures in nozzles of ice cream feedlines that extrude specified shape of ice cream ribbon for bar, doughnut, patty, or roll shaped novelty.
• Starts pumps and turns steam and water valves to fill and heat chocolate coating in enrobing tank to specified temperature.
• Starts machines that cut extruded ice cream ribbon into measured portions, deposit them on conveyor pallets moving through hardening box, and under chocolate coating spray, and envelope them in wrappers.
• Measures cut portions of ice cream, using gauge, and adjusts freezer air intake to obtain specified thickness of mixture.
• Observes fallen bars in hardening box or their position on pallets and turns controls to synchronize conveyor with freezer speed, and change hardening temperature or freezer pressure.
• Replaces wire over posts of cutter arm to repair broken cutter.
• Tends automatic wrapping machine.
• Brushes pallets, using bristle brush to remove frost.
• Cleans machines.