- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends conveyors and machines that blend various types and varieties of tobacco with domestic blends of tobacco. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyors to move continuous flow of tobacco under blenders (revolving spikes) to feeders that add specified types of tobacco, through ordering cylinder, overflow scales, and onto final blending belt.
* Sets timers to control blending and feeding speeds and sets flow scales to control amount of tobacco fed, following specifications.
* Forks specified tobacco into feeder at intervals, to obtain desired blend.
* Observes flow of tobacco and operation of conveyors and machines to ensure efficient operation.
* Records weight of each lot processed.
* May be designated according to type of tobacco processed as Turkish-Line Attendant; Virginia-Line Attendant.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to blend citrus fruit juices. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves to permit juices to flow from extractor machines to holding tanks.
* Fills blending tanks with required amounts of specified juices.
* Turns on mechanical agitators in blending tanks to mix contents, and pumps mixture to deoiling and pasteurizing machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes water and salt to prepare brine solution for use in preserving or separating food products. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to transfer solution from mixing machine to storage or separator tanks.
* Tests specific gravity of solution with hydrometer and adds water or salt to bring solution to specified density.
* May clean machinery and equipment, using steam hose, soap, and brushes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that forms cooked oilseed meats into cakes prior to oil extraction. Respnsibilities include:
* Places cloth on cake-forming tray and presses lever or pedal to position charging buggy (hopper) over tray.
* Releases oilseed onto tray and folds ends of cloth over oilseed meats.
* Lowers head (metal block) into position over tray containing meats, and pulls lever to raise tray against head and form oilseed meats into cake.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes cloth wrapper from pressed cottonseed cake. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts end of cloth in which cottonseed cake is wrapped into slotted shaft of cake-stripping machine.
* Presses pedal to revolve shaft that strips cloth from cake.
* Places cake onto conveyor for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends candy-pulling machine or kneads candy by hand to impart specified flavor, color, and consistency to candy preparatory to spinning and cutting. Respnsibilities include:
* Kneads and pulls batch of candy.
* Adds specified amount of coloring and flavoring agents and continues kneading until coloring and flavoring are uniformly distributed and candy feels hardened enough to withstand machine pulling.
* Hangs kneaded ribbon of candy on hooks of pulling machine and starts machine that pulls candy until it feels sufficiently hardened to retain specified consistency after spinning and cutting.
* May be designated according to candy pulled as Taffy Puller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends candy-pulling machine or kneads candy by hand to impart specified flavor, color, and consistency to candy preparatory to spinning and cutting. Respnsibilities include:
* Kneads and pulls batch of candy.
* Adds specified amount of coloring and flavoring agents and continues kneading until coloring and flavoring are uniformly distributed and candy feels hardened enough to withstand machine pulling.
* Hangs kneaded ribbon of candy on hooks of pulling machine and starts machine that pulls candy until it feels sufficiently hardened to retain specified consistency after spinning and cutting.
* May be designated according to candy pulled as Taffy Puller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who pours and spreads batches of cooked candy, such as fudge, caramel, or toffee, in pans or trays, or onto temperature-controlled slabs preparatory to cutting. Respnsibilities include:
* Covers pan, tray, or slab with wax paper, dusts lined pan with powdered sugar, or greases with shortening to prevent sticking.
* Spreads candy to specified thickness, using spatula or roller.
* May cut candy into sections, using knife, for use by cutting-machine operator or set cutter frames into candy to slice it into individual sections.
* May roughen surface with scraper to simulate homemade candy or sprinkle chopped nuts or fruit over candy to decorate it.
* When spreading and cutting bar candy, may be designated Candy Maker, Bar.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends vats, tanks, and pumps to mix, store, and transfer flavoring ingredients for use in making casing fluid. Respnsibilities include:
* Pumps liquid from tank car to holding tanks and from holding tanks into vats for mixing.
* Adds specified amount of powdered flavoring to liquid in vat and admits steam to vat to blend liquid and powdered ingredients.
* Pumps mixture into aging tanks or to casing machine storage tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends vats, tanks, and pumps to mix, store, and transfer flavoring ingredients for use in making casing fluid. Respnsibilities include:
* Pumps liquid from tank car to holding tanks and from holding tanks into vats for mixing.
* Adds specified amount of powdered flavoring to liquid in vat and admits steam to vat to blend liquid and powdered ingredients.
* Pumps mixture into aging tanks or to casing machine storage tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
