A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers in threshing department of tobacco processing plant. Respnsibilities include:

• Pushes buttons on control panels to start conveyors and machines.
• Observes threshing machine units to detect jams and defective machine operations.
• Removes clogged tobacco, using metal rod or hand, or diverts flow of tobacco to another processing line until jams have been corrected.
• Feels tobacco to determine moisture content and turns valves to regulate flow of steam and water into ordering machine.
• Keeps payroll timecards for subordinates.
• Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.