Job Description:

• 1) Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in blending, aging, and fermenting tobacco strips and stems in production of cigars, chewing tobacco, or snuff: Reads production schedules for information, such as quantity of stems, and strip tobacco, amounts of water and casing fluid, and aging time specified.

• 2) Computes amount of tobacco strips and stems required to maintain production.

• 3) Analyzes thermometer readings of piles of tobacco to determine stages of fermentation, and schedules turning or transfer of tobacco cures.

• 4) Coordinates receipt of tobacco from supplier and transfer to drying department.

• 5) Performs other duties as described under SUPERVISOR Master Title.