A professional who tends equipment, such as blenders, roasters and grinders, and performs any combination of following tasks to prepare ice cream flavoring, coloring, and nut and fruit mixtures. Respnsibilities include:

• Weighs or measures specified quantities of ingredients, such as syrup, sugar, water, butter, fruit pulp, fruit juice, salt, dye, and gelatin, using graduate.
• Dumps ingredients into blending vat.
• Turns valve and starts agitator to heat and blend contents for specified period.
• Opens valve to start flow of blend to storage vat, or moves it to processing unit, using handtruck.
• Fills hopper of nut grinder and turns knob to adjust teeth for desired grind.
• Dumps ground nuts into roaster and adjusts burner to roast them.
• Dumps prepared fruits into sieve to remove juice.
• Observes ingredients and removes foreign matter.
• Sprays containers and equipment with sterilizing solution to clean them.
• Maintains inventory of supplies.