A professional who tends machines equipped with guillotine knives or bandsaw, stick pusher, and deheader, that automatically strip, dehead, and cut macaroni long goods to specified length. Respnsibilities include:

• Starts elevator to position rack of dried macaroni beside machine.
• Pulls machine arm that lifts drying stick (rod) of macaroni from rack onto chain conveyor that feeds it onto machine bed.
• Starts deheading hammer, stick pusher, and knives, and feeds macaroni onto packaging conveyor.
• Starts machine that automatically strips and dehooks macaroni, and passes it through preset bandsaw to cut product into specified lengths for packaging.
• Removes cut macaroni from trough and places in box on packaging conveyor line.