Job Description:

• 1) Tends machines equipped with guillotine knives or bandsaw, stick pusher, and deheader, that automatically strip, dehead, and cut macaroni long goods to specified length: Starts elevator to position rack of dried macaroni beside machine.

• 2) Pulls machine arm that lifts drying stick of macaroni from rack onto chain conveyor that feeds it onto machine bed.

• 3) Starts deheading hammer, stick pusher, and knives, and feeds macaroni onto packaging conveyor.

• 4) Starts machine that automatically strips and dehooks macaroni, and passes it through preset bandsaw to cut product into specified lengths for packaging.

• 5) Removes cut macaroni from trough and places in box on packaging conveyor line.