A professional who tends blanching machine that removes skins from shelled peanuts. Respnsibilities include:

• Starts machine and pours peanuts into machine hopper.
• Inspects peanuts as they fall from machine onto moving belt and picks out foreign matter, unblanched peanuts, and peanuts that fail to meet production specifications.
• May sack blanched peanuts.
• May tend sorting machine that electronically locates and removes unblanched peanuts.