- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machine that cuts candy, such as caramel, nougat, or fudge, in pieces or strips of specified size. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts slab of candy into sections, using knife.
* Selects cutting disks, mounted on shaft, according to specified width of cut, and installs cutting disks in machine.
* Places candy on conveyor that carries it under rotating disks for cutting into strips.
* Repositions cut strips on conveyor or feeds strips against knife so that slicing occurs at right angle to first cut, forming square or oblong pieces of candy suitable for shipment or further processing.
* Weighs random samples to ensure conformity of product with size and weight specifications.
* Dusts candy with flour or starch to prevent sticking.
* May tend machine equipped with two cutting heads, and device that changes feed angle so that candy is automatically sliced into strips and cut into pieces of specified size and shape.
* May be designated according to candy processed as Caramel Cutter, Machine; Mint-Machine Operator; Nougat Cutter, Machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends flotation cleaner that removes materials, such as pod fragments, leaves, or thistles from peas and other vegetables preparatory to canning or freezing. Respnsibilities include:
* Mixes emulsion solution with water, according to standard formula.
* Turns valves to fill supply and separator tanks, and pretreater with water, and starts heater, pretreater pump, and recovery reel.
* Starts separator pump and pours emulsion and oil into air inlet pipe.
* Pulls lever to allow vegetables to flow into separator tank which floats foreign material out over recovery reel screen.
* May weigh sample of cleaned peas and compute weight loss.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that washes dried fruit, such as apricots, figs, prunes, and raisins preparatory to canning, packaging, or making specialty foods, such as mincemeat and chutney. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps fruit into hopper of machine.
* Starts machine that rotates fruit rapidly in water to remove dirt and automatically ejects fruit onto receiving tray.
* May inspect washed fruit and remove foreign matter.
* May be designated according to dried fruit washed as Apricot Washer; Fig Washer; Prune Washer; Raisin Washer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that breaks eggs and separates yolk from white of egg. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine that automatically breaks eggs and dumps contents into individual cups.
* Observes eggs for specified yolk and white color, quality, and clarity.
* Trips cup lever to drop inferior yolk or white before cups enter separator trays.
* Stops machine to remove contaminated cups.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends centrifuge or power-driven press that extracts moisture from residue of fermented mash after distillation. Respnsibilities include:
* Pumps residue from storage tanks into centrifuge, or through filter screens and into power-driven press, that separates solids from liquids and extracts moisture from residue solids.
* Starts conveyor or blower system that transfers residue solids to rotary drier for further processing.
* Cleans and sterilizes equipment, using steam cleaning apparatus and alkali solutions.
* May maintain and repair equipment, using handtools.
* May be designated according to equipment tended as Centrifuge Operator; Press Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that grind, cut, crimp, shell, or roll grain, hay, corncobs, chaff, and screenings for stock and poultry feed. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens chute to regulate flow of grain into machine or pitches hay and corncobs into machine hopper.
* Starts machine and adjusts control to regulate speed, according to fineness of grind specified.
* May tend separator that cleans grain prior to grinding or to sift ground grain.
* May start conveyors and elevators to transfer processed feed to storage or packing machine bins.
* May fill sacks and weigh them on platform scale.
* May be designated according to machine tended as Corn-Cutter Operator; Corn-Sheller Operator; Crimper Operator; Crusher-Machine Operator; Hammer-Mill Operator; Rolled-Oats-Mill Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends screw-type filter press that removes tartrates from wine or produces sheen on wine prior to bottling. Respnsibilities include:
* Covers filter plates with cloth pads and turns handwheel to close press.
* Starts press and turns valves to admit wine through filters.
* Starts pumps to transfer filtered wine to storage tanks or bottling room.
* Replaces filter pads.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends filter tank that separates undesirable solids from glucose and dextrose under direction of char-filter-tank tender, head. Respnsibilities include:
* Couples pipe to filters and turns valves to control flow of solution from storage.
* Removes filter head, using wrench.
* Inserts charging spout into opening of filter and pulls lever of sliding gate to admit char (activated carbon) into filter.
* Replaces filter head, using wrench.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends filtering machines that separate cornstarch from undesirable protein solids. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and turns valves to admit starch suspension from tank through filters and to control flow of wash water to filter spray nozzles.
* Observes thermometers and turns steam valves to maintain specified temperature of water in tank.
* Controls flow of water into standardization tanks to regulate specific gravity of starch suspension, according to instructions from filter operator.
* Changes damaged filter cloths and flushes soiled cloths, using hose.
* Inserts wire into holes of spray nozzles to prevent clogging.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends filtering equipment that separates skins and seeds from tomato sauce, chile sauce, and catsup, prior to packaging. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs specified screens in filtering equipment, using handtools.
* Places refuse drums under tank outlet to receive skins and seeds.
* Starts agitating paddles that force sauce through filter screens to separate skins and seeds from liquid.
* Dips ladle into sauce tank to obtain sample for examination.
* Examines sauce for consistency and presence of skins and seeds that indicate clogged or damaged filter screens.
* Changes damaged screens, using handtools.
* Starts pump to transfer filtered sauce to holding tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
