Operate or tend food or tobacco roasting, baking, or drying equipment, including hearth ovens, kiln driers, roasters, char kilns, and vacuum drying equipment.

Other names for Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders: Automatic Oven Operator, Bakery Utility Person, Bakery Worker, Bean Roaster, Belt Conveyor Drier, Bone Char Kiln Operator, Bun Panner, Buttermilk Drier Operator, Cocoa Bean Roaster, Cocoa Roaster, Corn Popper, Chocolate Temperer, Coffee Roaster, Continuous Process Coffee Roaster, Curing Bin Operator, Curing Room Worker, Dehydrator Operator, Dehydrator Tender, Drier, Drier Attendant, Drier Operator, Drier Tender, Drum Drier, Drum Drier Operator, Dryer Operator, Drying Machine Operator, Enrober, Extra Hand, Fish Salter, Fish Smoker, Flaker Operator, Food Production Worker, Fruit Dryer, Furnace Operator, Grain Drier, Grain Drier Operator, Grain Roaster, Grain Wafer Machine Operator, Granulator Operator, Gunner, Ham Curer, Ham Smoker, Icing Machine Operator, Instantizer Operator, Kiln Firer, Linter Drier Operator, Long Goods Drier, Machine Operator, Machine Pie Maker, Malt Roaster, Meat Curer, Malt House Kiln Operator, Manufacturing Assistant, Manufacturing Associate, Manufacturing Operator, Meat Smoker, Meringuer, Milk Drier, Milk Drying Machine Operator, Nut Roaster, Oven Operator, Oven Tender, Oven Worker, Peanut Roaster, Peelman, Pizza Maker, Pretzel Cooker, Pulp Drier Firer, Redrying Machine Operator, Rice Drier, Rice Drier Operator, Roaster, Roaster Operator, Roasterman, Roastmaster, Sausage Smoker, Smokehouse Worker, Smoker, Steam Oven Operator, Sugar Drier, Tobacco Curer, Tobacco Drier Operator, Vacuum Drier Operator, Wafer Machine Operator, Wine Pasteurizer,

• Observe, feel, taste, or otherwise examine products during and after processing, in order to ensure conformance to standards.
• Observe temperature, humidity, pressure gauges, and product samples, and adjust controls, such as thermostats and valves, in order to maintain prescribed operating conditions for specific stages.
• Operate or tend equipment that roasts, bakes, dries, or cures food items such as cocoa and coffee beans, grains, nuts, and bakery products.
• Set temperature and time controls; light ovens, burners, driers, or roasters; and start equipment, such as conveyors, cylinders, blowers, driers, or pumps.
• Observe flow of materials and listen for machine malfunctions, such as jamming or spillage, and notify supervisors if corrective actions fail.
• Record production data, such as weight and amount of product processed, type of product, and time and temperature of processing.
• Weigh or measure products, using scale hoppers or scale conveyors.
• Read work orders in order to determine quantities and types of products to be baked, dried, or roasted.
• Take product samples during and/or after processing for laboratory analyses.
• Fill or remove product from trays, carts, hoppers, or equipment, using scoops, peels, or shovels, or by hand.
• Open valves, gates, or chutes, or use shovels in order to load or remove products from ovens or other equipment.
• Clean equipment with steam, hot water, and hoses.
• Clear or dislodge blockages in bins, screens, or other equipment, using poles, brushes, or mallets.
• Push racks or carts in order to transfer products to storage, cooling stations, or the next stage of processing.
• Start conveyors to move roasted grain to cooling pans and agitate grain with rakes as blowers force air through perforated bottoms of pans.
• Smooth out products in bins, pans, trays, or conveyors, using rakes or shovels.
• Install equipment, such as spray units, cutting blades, or screens, using hand tools.
• Test products for moisture content, using moisture meters.
• Signal coworkers in order to synchronize flow of materials.
• Dump sugar dust from collectors into melting tanks and add water, in order to reclaim sugar lost during processing.