Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that mashes peas and registers force required to crush them to ascertain hardness and grades peas: Fills measured pail with pea sample and weighs sample, using scale.

• 2) Washes and cleans sample to remove debris, such as thistles and weeds, reweighs sample, and calculates percentage of waste per load of peas based on sample.

• 3) Pours pea sample into top of size grader and counts number of peas in each grade level to calculate percentage of each grade of pea in crop.

• 4) Dumps cleaned peas on grid of machine and closes cover.

• 5) Starts motor to rotate disks of grid which mash peas and simultaneously registers force required on dial.

• 6) Repeats test on second sample from same pan and records dial readings.

• 7) Records average force required to mash peas, which determines quality of product.

• 8) Inserts slip showing quality into container.