A professional who tends freeze tunnel to quick-freeze food products. Respnsibilities include:

• Pushes switches to start and control speed of conveyorized screen that conveys food product through tunnel that flash freezes food as it passes.
• Turns valves to adjust temperature in tunnel and monitors temperature and pressure gauges to ensure conformance to company specifications.
• Patrols tunnel to observe progress of vegetables to ensure freezing and to detect machinery malfunctions.
• Scrapes conveyor to remove excess ice or frost from conveyor and to break vegetables loose from conveyor to prevent accumulation, using hands and handtools.
• Breaks excess ice from tunnel outlet to facilitate conveyorized frozen food off bearing.
• Notifies supervisor of machinery malfunctions.
• May tend machine that deposits breading onto food products.