A professional who tends screening device (riddle) to separate coarse pieces of tobacco from cut tobacco. Respnsibilities include:

• Starts riddle and observes conveyor feeding tobacco into riddle from cutting machine.
• Scrapes off coarse tobacco left on flat screen and returns tobacco to cutting machine.
• Replaces filled boxes of sifted tobacco with empty boxes.
• May brush tobacco from clogged screens.
• May be designated according to type of tobacco processed as Granulated-Tobacco Screener; Shorts Sifter; Tobacco-Scrap Sifter.