A professional who tends equipment that fumigates incoming shipments of spices to kill insects. Respnsibilities include:

• Stacks sacks, boxes, and cartons of spices in fumigating tank; or moves loaded pallet into fumigating room, using handtruck.
• Starts exhaust pump or opens valve on carbon dioxide pressure cylinder to remove or force air from fumigating tank or room.
• Pours specified quantities of liquid fumigants, such as ethylene oxide, into container in fumigating tank; or opens valve on pressure cylinder to admit specified amounts of gaseous fumigant into tank or room.
• Opens ventilating valves and starts vacuum pump or blower to remove fumigants after specified time.
• Removes spices from fumigating tank or room.
• May be required to hold fumigator's license issued by local health department.