A professional who tends coating and drying equipment that coats cereal products, such as flakes or puffed grain, with syrup, vitamin mixture, or other liquid. Respnsibilities include:

• Lights gas burners or turns steam valve to attain specified temperature in drier and syrup storage tank.
• Starts revolving drum and conveyors that feed cereal product into drum and through drier.
• Pumps liquid from storage tank to perforated spraying pipe in drum.
• Adjusts speed of conveyor and drum to coat cereal to specified thickness, indicated by feel and color inspection.