A professional who tends equipment that roasts, blanches, and cleans shelled nuts. Respnsibilities include:

• Sets temperature and time controls on oven for roasting process.
• Fills trays with nuts by hand and places trays in oven, or dumps nuts into feeder bin of screen conveyorized cooker or rotary drum in oven.
• Removes sample of nuts from oven, using spoon, compares nuts with color standard, and adjusts time and temperature controls of oven to ensure specified roasting.
• Removes specified number of trays of roasted nuts from oven for further processing, or pulls lever to empty roasted nuts from rotary oven into bin.
• Smooths out nuts in bin, using rake.
• Pushes bin over forced draft air vent to cool nuts.
• Tilts bin by hand or by hoist to dump cooled nuts into hopper of machines that remove skins, sprouts, stones, shell particles, and dirt, and starts machine.
• May immerse and roast nuts in hot oil bath.
• May coat nuts with liquid gum arabic prior to roasting to provide adhesive surface for salt.
• May sprinkle nuts with salt, garlic, cheese, or other seasonings by hand or by using automatic equipment.
• May pack nuts in bags or sacks.
• May be designated according to kind of nut roasted as Almond Roaster; Peanut Roaster; or according to whether oil is used as Dry Roaster; Wet Roaster.