- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who tends machine containing rolls that form cooked grain into flakes, shredded biscuits, or other shapes to produce cereal products. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves controls to start pairs of rollers rotating and to convey cooked grain to roll feeders.
* Turns dials and handwheels to adjust pressure of rollers to maintain specified thickness and consistency of formed product, as indicated by feel and visual inspection, and to control rate of feed of grain through feeding mechanism.
* Replaces worn knives used to scrape formed grain from roller surface, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that blend and sift flour, and conveyors that carry flour between machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts screw conveyors or turns valves on feed chutes to transfer flour from storage bins to mixing machine, or dumps designated bags of flour into hopper of machine.
* Starts machine to mix flour and pulls lever to open gate and allow blended flour to flow from machine.
* Starts separator that sifts mixed flour to remove lumps.
* Starts conveyors that transfer blended and sifted flour to packing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that blend various grades of green coffee beans. Respnsibilities include:
* Transfers sacks of specified grades of green coffee beans to dumping chute, using handtruck.
* Empties beans onto chute.
* Starts machine that mixes coffee beans.
* Pulls levers to dump mixed coffee beans into elevators that convey them to cleaning and storage areas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that blend various grades of green coffee beans. Respnsibilities include:
* Transfers sacks of specified grades of green coffee beans to dumping chute, using handtruck.
* Empties beans onto chute.
* Starts machine that mixes coffee beans.
* Pulls levers to dump mixed coffee beans into elevators that convey them to cleaning and storage areas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that mixes ingredients for icing or filling bakery products. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and measures ingredients, such as sugar, chocolate, food coloring, and pulped or ground fruit or nuts, according to recipe.
* Dumps ingredients into mixing bowl.
* Selects and installs beater arms in mixing machine, using wrench.
* Turns dials and pushes buttons to set mixing time, temperature, and speed to start machine.
* Pours measured amount of water from container into mixing bowl, and adds additional ingredients, as necessary, during mixing cycle to ensure that icing or filling meets company standards.
* Observes and feels texture of mix to determine when desired consistency has been obtained.
* May cook some types of icings or fillings in steam-jacketed kettles.
* May mix meringue for pie topping.
* May be designated according to product mixed or cooked as Cooker, Pie Filling; Fruit Mixer; Pie-Filling Mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mixes various types of cigar filler or plug filler tobacco. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs out specified amounts of each type of tobacco and dumps tobacco on floor.
* Forks tobacco leaves together to obtain uniform mix.
* Forks mixed leaves into storage bin.
* May fill bags with blended filler tobacco.
* May be designated according to type of filler tobacco mixed as Seed And Havana-Scrap Preparer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes formulated ingredients, such as sugar, syrup, and flavoring to make dough for candy lozenges. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and measures ingredients according to formula, and dumps specified quantity of ingredients into trough of mixing machine.
* Starts machine that kneads and mixes ingredients, forming dough.
* Examines and feels mixture for specified consistency and to determine need for additional ground sugar or other ingredients.
* Scoops lozenge mixture onto tray for further processing.
* May be designated according to product mixed as Kiss Mixer; Mint-Lozenge Mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mill and agitating vat that grind and mix flour and malt with water, to make malted milk mash. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns water valve to fill vat and starts grinder and agitator.
* Transfers flour and malt from storage silo by moving microswitch controls to deposit specified amounts through automatic scale hopper into mill or by placing counters on meters and starting conveyors that carry measured amounts through grinder into vat.
* Observes ammeter, and grain and water meters to detect deviations from specifications, and moves levers to alter grain and water flow.
* Pumps mash to mash kettles.
* May heat mash by mixing steam with water.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes meat scraps, used in poultry feed, into uniform mixture. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and opens slide gate in hopper to feed scraps into machine.
* Observes meter and adjusts slide gates in feed hopper to regulate flow of material into machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes specified amounts of additives and raw salt to fortify salt products, such as table salt, salt tablets, and block salt. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs out specified amounts of additives, such as potassium iodide, magnesium carbonate, garlic, and spices, using scale, and dumps them into drum of mixer.
* Starts automatic weighing machine that weighs out prescribed amount of salt.
* Moves levers to transfer salt from scales to mixing drum and starts mixer.
* Pushes lever to open bottom of mixer and discharge mixed product into packing bins or into feed hopper of tablet compressor.
* May tend vibrating screens to size salt crystals.
* May be designated according to product for which salt is mixed as Mixer Operator, Raw Salt (chemical); Mixer Operator, Tablets (chemical); Mixer Operator, Vacuum-Pan Salt (chemical).
Industry:Professional careers
