A professional who inspects cigars from fresh-work cigar machine to determine conformance to standards. Respnsibilities include:

• Weighs random bundles of cigars to determine whether cigars are of prescribed weight and notifies supervisor, cigar-making machine when weight is not standard.
• Inspects cigars for broken tobacco wrappers, soft spots, defective patches, and variations from standard length and discards defective cigars.
• May place full boxes of perfect cigars in case.