Job Description:

• 1) Compresses lumps of tobacco into plugs of chewing tobacco in hand shapes, performing any combination of following tasks: Greases sinkers to prevent lumps from sticking, using cloth saturated with liquid paraffin or petrolatum.

• 2) Places sinkers and frames into shape boxes and fills frame cells with specified number of lumps.

• 3) Positions filled shape box under ram of hydraulic press and turns valve to lower ram onto shapes that compress lumps into plugs.