A professional who tends machines that dehydrate nuts. Respnsibilities include:

• Starts heater and sets thermostat to control air temperature.
• Starts blower system that forces warm air through nuts to dry them, improve storage qualities, and prepare them for further processing.
• Starts conveyor to move nuts into machine for dehydration.
• Tests dryness of nuts by feeling or by using moisture indicator.
• Attaches sack to discharge end of machine to catch dried nuts, or starts conveyor system that transfers dried nuts to storage bin.
• May sew sack, using needle and twine.
• May be designated according to kind of nut dehydrated as Walnut-Dehydrator Operator.