A professional who tends equipment to cook and mix syrup with popcorn, forming popcorn candy. Respnsibilities include:

• Weighs, measures, adds, stirs, and cooks ingredients, such as corn syrup, butter, and water in open-fire cooker or steam-jacketed kettle according to formula and specified procedure.
• Dumps popped corn into bowl of mixing machine or other container.
• Pours syrup over corn and starts agitator to mix corn and syrup for specified time or until coating is complete.
• May tend molding press to form popcorn novelties or shapes, such as balls or fritters (disks).