A professional who tends machine that cuts potatoes into sections of uniform size for use as seed. Respnsibilities include:

• Pushes button to start machinery that carries potatoes to, through, and from cutter blades.
• Arranges potatoes, according to size, on feed conveyor in line with knives.
• Discards diseased and rotting potatoes.
• Monitors potato flow and observes machinery operation to detect jams and malfunctions.
• Clears jams, and reports malfunctions to supervisor.
• Rakes up potatoes and potato sections that have fallen from conveyors.