A professional who tends equipment that pasteurizes and filters liquid honey, and seeds honey with crystals to make crystallized honey for use as food spread. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns valve to admit honey from blending tanks to pasteurizer, and to adjust and control pasteurizing temperature.
• Installs pads in filter press and turns handcrank to tighten pads.
• Starts pumps and adjusts pressure to force honey through filter and transfer honey to bottling machine or cooling vats.
• Pours container of honey crystals into vat of liquid honey and mixes it with paddle or electric stirring rod to induce controlled crystallization.
• May bottle honey.