A professional who tends machine that cuts cakes of pressed tobacco (cheeses), into granular form for smoking tobacco. Respnsibilities include:

• Places cake of tobacco on bed of machine and pushes cake between corrugated feed rollers.
• Catches cut tobacco on tray and feeds ends of slices between rollers, keeping slices in line.
• Changes dull knife blades, using wrench.
• Cleans machine, using steam hose.