- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends battery of presses that automatically mix ingredients, and knead and extrude dough for use in making macaroni products. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs specified dies in presses, using handtools.
* Sets automatic weighing device.
* Opens valves to admit prescribed ingredients into mixing unit and turns dials that control rate of flow of material through processing units.
* Starts machines that trim and rack extruded strands of long goods over drying sticks (rods) and convey them into preliminary drying chamber, or extrude short goods onto conveyor chutes leading to series of driers.
* Observes presses in operation to ensure progressive movement of mixture.
* Regulates speed of press to control product quantity.
* Observes color of dough and feels its consistency to determine, from knowledge and experience, if product conforms to standard.
* May be designated according to type press product as Press Tender, Long Goods; Press Tender, Short Goods.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically rolls, cuts to size, and twists dough to form pretzels and conveys them to oven. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns knobs to adjust machine to roll and cut dough to specified thickness and length.
* Loads dough into machine hopper and starts machine.
* Observes processing of dough through machine to detect broken or misformed pretzels.
* Stops machine to clear jams.
* May be designated according to type of pretzel formed as Pretzel-Stick-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that blends diced pickles with other ingredients to make relish. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs out specified quantity of diced pickles in barrel, using floor scales, and dumps pickles into blending tank, using automatic hoist.
* Pumps cooked mixture of sugar, syrup, spices, and preservatives into blending tank.
* Starts agitator in blending tank and observes process to ensure thorough blending.
* Opens valve to transfer relish to bin for packing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that blends diced pickles with other ingredients to make relish. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs out specified quantity of diced pickles in barrel, using floor scales, and dumps pickles into blending tank, using automatic hoist.
* Pumps cooked mixture of sugar, syrup, spices, and preservatives into blending tank.
* Starts agitator in blending tank and observes process to ensure thorough blending.
* Opens valve to transfer relish to bin for packing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that rolls slabs of candy to specified thickness prior to cutting. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel to adjust clearance of rollers to accommodate thickness of slab without binding.
* Starts machine and feeds slab of candy between rollers.
* Reverses rollers to return candy for removal.
* Readjusts rollers and continues operation until candy is rolled to specified thickness.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes ingredients, such as ground meat and condiments, to make sausage, according to formula. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs ingredients and dumps them into mixing machine.
* Starts machine that mixes ingredients.
* Empties mixed ingredients into containers.
* May grind meat.
* May fill casings with bulk sausage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes ground meat and condiments to make bulk sausage. Respnsibilities include:
* Shovels meat into bowl of mixing machine and adds specified amounts of seasonings.
* Starts machine, observes thermometer, and adds water or ice to bowl to regulate temperature of mixture.
* Moves lever to tilt mixing bowl and empty contents into cart.
* Scrapes meat from bowl and mixing paddles.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that forces meat emulsion into casings to make meat products, such as linked sausages, frankfurters, and wieners. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts lid from compression cylinder and shovels meat emulsion into cylinder.
* Tamps emulsion with shovel to remove air pockets and replaces lid.
* Turns valve to admit compressed air into cylinder.
* Slides casing over discharge nozzle and moves lever to discharge emulsion into casing.
* Ties knot in end of filled casing, or seals casing with clipping device to prevent loss of emulsion.
* May tend machine that automatically fills, links, and ties casings with wire band.
* May feed filled casing into linking machine.
* May tend stuffing machine that fills casings with bulk sausage and be designated Bulk-Sausage-Stuffing-Machine Operator (meat products).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that forces meat emulsion into casings to make meat products, such as linked sausages, frankfurters, and wieners. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts lid from compression cylinder and shovels meat emulsion into cylinder.
* Tamps emulsion with shovel to remove air pockets and replaces lid.
* Turns valve to admit compressed air into cylinder.
* Slides casing over discharge nozzle and moves lever to discharge emulsion into casing.
* Ties knot in end of filled casing, or seals casing with clipping device to prevent loss of emulsion.
* May tend machine that automatically fills, links, and ties casings with wire band.
* May feed filled casing into linking machine.
* May tend stuffing machine that fills casings with bulk sausage and be designated Bulk-Sausage-Stuffing-Machine Operator (meat products).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically rolls (sheets), curls, and cuts sweet goods into specified size and weight preparatory to making rolls, coffee cake, and other sweet goods. Respnsibilities include:
* Fills dispensing units of machine with such ingredients as oil, cinnamon, and sugar.
* Adjusts valve to control sprinkling of ingredients on dough and starts machine.
* Picks up dough from pan and sprinkles with flour.
* Places dough on conveyor that feeds into sheeting rolls.
* Observes progress of dough rolling, and stops machine to correct malfunctions.
* May roll dough by repeated hand feeding through machine to obtain desired consistency.
Industry:Professional careers
