Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that fumigates incoming shipments of spices to kill insects: Stacks sacks, boxes, and cartons of spices in fumigating tank; or moves loaded pallet into fumigating room, using handtruck.

• 2) Starts exhaust pump or opens valve on carbon dioxide pressure cylinder to remove or force air from fumigating tank or room.

• 3) Pours specified quantities of liquid fumigants, such as ethylene oxide, into container in fumigating tank; or opens valve on pressure cylinder to admit specified amounts of gaseous fumigant into tank or room.

• 4) Opens ventilating valves and starts vacuum pump or blower to remove fumigants after specified time.

• 5) Removes spices from fumigating tank or room.

• 6) May be required to hold fumigator's license issued by local health department.