Job Description:

• 1) Tends washing, blanching, steaming, brining, peeling, or shucking machine that prepares shellfish for canning, freezing, or fresh packing: Opens valves to admit water, steam, or air under pressure into machine vats, and adds specified quantities of additives, such as salt or food coloring.

• 2) Lowers baskets of shellfish into vats by hand or hoist, or pushes cars of shellfish into steamer chamber.

• 3) Closes door of steamer chamber, clamps fasteners over edges of door, and turns wing nuts to secure door.