- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends banks of sifting and purifying machines that separate fine flour from coarse flour or middlings. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens spouts and adjusts feed slides to route flour to machines and to regulate flow across sifters without overloading.
* Feels sifted flour to detect uneven texture that indicates breaks in screens.
* Pulls screen frames from machine to locate and replace broken screens.
* Records weights of flour grades produced as indicated on automatic scales.
* May collect flour samples periodically for laboratory testing.
* May perform color tests of flour, comparing color of various batches to maintain quality of milled product.
* May be designated according to machine tended as Purifier.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that breaks scored sheets of chewing gum into tablet size pieces.
* Starts machine and empties trays of scored gum sheets into revolving drum of machine.
* Inserts wire mesh basket into opening of machine to collect and withdraw gum tablets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends gravity-fed brine-filled tanks that separate young, tender vegetables, such as peas and lima beans, from more matured vegetables. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to add solution to tank and maintain specified level.
* Pushes vegetables down chute to prevent clogging, as vegetables emerge from tank.
* Cleans tank and work area, using scraper and water hose.
* May mix brine solution.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends centrifuge machines to remove solid impurities and water from animal and vegetable oils. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to admit steam to jackets of machines.
* Starts pumps and opens valves to feed oil to machines and to transfer oil to receiving tanks.
* Observes gauges on machines to determine when temperature is within prescribed range.
* May rub oil between fingers to detect grit and reprocess oil that does not meet company standards.
* May open valves to pump oil through one or more settling tanks to separate water from oil.
* May clean centrifuge and settling tanks.
* Does not utilize heat when processing essential oils, such as citrus oils, due to volatility of these oils.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that clarifies wine prior to filtering. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pump to transfer fermented wine from settling cask to clarifying tank.
* Spreads chemicals over surface of wine to aid in clarification, and starts agitator to mix ingredients for specified period of time.
* Stops agitator to allow suspended matter to settle.
* Starts pumps to transfer clarified wine to filtering tank.
* May fumigate empty wine casks with bottled gas and burn sulfur sticks in casks to kill bacteria.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that clean, grade, and polish rice. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns wheels of feeder box to regulate amount of rice on cleaning screen.
* Adjusts air valve to regulate air draft that removes dust and straw from rice on screen.
* Regulates air suction in aspirator that cools rice and removes bran.
* Observes rice passing through reels that separate brewer's rice (broken grains) from rice screenings (larger broken grains) and head rice (whole grains).
* Adjusts rice grader to ensure required separation of rice screenings from head rice.
* Tends machine that mixes water and corn syrup used as rice polish.
* Opens outlet in mixer to permit polish to flow into auger mixer and polish rice.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes from cocoa beans, such foreign materials as stones, string and dirt. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects bags of cocoa beans, according to instructions and transfers them to hopper of machine, using handtruck; or presses button to start conveyors that move beans from silo to hopper.
* Opens bags with knife and dumps beans into machine hopper.
* Positions conveyor spout to direct cleaned beans to specified silo for storage.
* Starts conveyors and machine that carry beans through air-cleaning system to remove foreign matter.
* Observes cleaning process to detect machine malfunction or material overflow.
* Removes and stacks sacks of dirt from discharge spout of air-cleaning system.
* Examines silo to verify conveyance of specified type of bean.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes from cocoa beans, such foreign materials as stones, string and dirt. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects bags of cocoa beans, according to instructions and transfers them to hopper of machine, using handtruck; or presses button to start conveyors that move beans from silo to hopper.
* Opens bags with knife and dumps beans into machine hopper.
* Positions conveyor spout to direct cleaned beans to specified silo for storage.
* Starts conveyors and machine that carry beans through air-cleaning system to remove foreign matter.
* Observes cleaning process to detect machine malfunction or material overflow.
* Removes and stacks sacks of dirt from discharge spout of air-cleaning system.
* Examines silo to verify conveyance of specified type of bean.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends press that separates residue from cocoa butter. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads pressure gauge and starts pump that forces unrefined cocoa butter through filter screen to separate residue from oil and transfers refined cocoa butter to storage.
* Unclamps door of filter to remove screen and gain access to interior of machine.
* Flushes and removes residue from screen and filter interior, using scraper and water hose.
* May treat cocoa butter with prescribed amounts of charcoal and clay to deodorize cocoa butter in treatment tank and filter press.
* May tend centrifuge to separate cocoa butter from residue and be designated Centrifugal Separator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic equipment and machinery that pulverizes cocoa cakes into powder of specified fineness and weighs and bags cocoa powders. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyors to move cocoa cakes through rollers of crusher into hammer mill for grinding into powder, through cooling chamber, and into air classification system which separates powder, according to density.
* Feels cocoa to ascertain fineness and collects sample for laboratory analysis.
* Fastens bag to holding tank outlet and pushes button to discharge specified amount of cocoa into bag through automatic weighing device.
* Verifies weight of filled bags, using scale.
* Closes bag and stacks bag on skids.
* May move cocoa cakes from storage area preparatory to dumping into hopper of crusher, using pallets and handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
