A professional who tends steam or hot-water vats that condition logs before cutting into veneer sheets used in making wooden slat baskets and boxes. Respnsibilities include:

• Hoists logs into vat or onto conveyor that carries them into cooker.
• Turns valves to maintain steam pressure or water temperature at specified setting.
• Removes logs or directs their removal after prescribed time, depending on size of logs and kind of wood.
• May remove bark from logs, using handtools.