A professional who tends machine that washes, slices, fries, and salts potatoes to make potato chips. Respnsibilities include:

• Opens valve to pump preheated cooking oil into cooking vats.
• Fills salt hopper.
• Adjusts burner controls to maintain specified temperature in cooking vats.
• Turns valves to rinse potato slices, and moves levers to control rate of flow of potato slices into cooking vats.
• Stirs potato slices to ensure uniform cooking, using paddle or by use of automatic reciprocating rakes.
• Observes color of cooked potato chips as they emerge onto conveyors from cooking vats.
• Replaces worn blades on slicing heads, using handtools.
• May cook potatoes by lowering wire basket of sliced potatoes into vat of cooking oil.