- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks in processing crab meat for canning, freezing, or packing. Respnsibilities include:
* Separates claws from crabs, positions claws in metal holder used to facilitate breaking claw shells, and breaks shells of claws and crabs, using knife or metal rod.
* Picks meat from shells, using knife and fingers.
* Feels meat for presence of shell and removes shell pieces by hand.
* Inspects meat for discoloration and discards meat not meeting company requirements.
* Places meat in containers for further processing.
* Gathers filled containers of meat, places containers on scale, and adds or removes meat from containers to obtain specified weight.
* Closes lids of containers, places containers in cartons, and seals cartons, using tape.
* May disjoint legs and body of large crabs, using power saw, and be known as Sawyer.
* May remove crab meat from smaller ends of leg segments, using pedal-controlled air jet, and be known as Blower.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in mixing, dividing, molding, and proofing of dough, and in baking, slicing, and wrapping of bread, pastries, and other bakery products. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines dough and batter for specified consistency.
* Reads charts of fermentation room and ovens to verify specified humidity and temperature.
* Oversees operation of automatic machinery, such as rounding, curling, icing, slicing, and wrapping machines to ensure maintenance of specified quality standards and production schedules.
* Sets up and adjusts wrapping and slicing machines.
* Trains new workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to product as Bread Supervisor (bakery products); Cake Supervisor (bakery products).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in preparing, cooking, portioning, and packaging ready-to-serve Mexican food specialties, such as chili, tamales, enchiladas, and tacos (seasoned chili beans wrapped in tortillas). Respnsibilities include:
* Requisitions ingredients, such as meat, olives, chili, garlic, and spices from storeroom.
* Directs activities of workers engaged in feeding and tending grinding and mixing machines, rolling, cutting, and baking tortillas, and stirring and tending food in cooking vessels.
* Tastes foods to determine that they meet seasoning specifications.
* Supervises workers engaged in portioning and packaging foods.
* Frequently performs duties of workers supervised.
* May be designated according to food cooked as Cook, Chili; Cook, Enchilada; Cook, Taco; Cook, Tamale; Cook, Tortilla.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in peeling and slicing potatoes, frying potato slices, and inspecting fried potato chips. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines incoming shipments of potatoes to detect rotten and diseased potatoes.
* Tests sample of potatoes in container of water to determine solidity content (degree of solidity) of potatoes, using Nicholson hydrometer (instrument used to measure specific gravity of a solid).
* Inserts thermometer into potato to determine temperature of potato shipment.
* Routes sample of potatoes from each shipment to potato-chip frier.
* Rejects or accepts potato shipment based on color and crispness of fried chips, number of defective potatoes in shipment, and solidity content and temperature of potatoes.
* Inspects potato chips to verify conformance to standards.
* Inventories and requisitions supplies.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who bakes loaves of bread to verify adherence of blended flour to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs equal portions of test flour and standard flour.
* Mixes flour and other ingredients and makes batch of dough from each flour.
* Records mixing formula and observes water absorption and kneading qualities of each batch to ensure that flour conforms to specifications.
* Places loaves in oven.
* Examines and compares baked loaves for uniformity of color and texture.
* Weighs each loaf and records weights.
* May prepare written reports of findings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who bakes samples of premixes, such as cake, biscuit, muffin and pancake to test batch prior to packaging. Respnsibilities include:
* Mixes ingredients and bakes in oven.
* Examines baked cake for color, texture, and density.
* Records findings on worksheet and determines if cake passes standards.
* Issues approval slip for batch meeting standards.
* Notifies plant chemist if batch does not meet standards.
* May test ingredients to determine cause of cake failure.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cooks fruits, vegetables, meats, condiments, or fish products, preparatory to canning or extraction of byproducts, using cooking equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs or measures ingredients according to recipe, using scale or graduated container.
* Loads ingredients into kettle or pressure cooker.
* Observes thermometer and gauges, turns valve to admit steam to pressure cookers or lights gas burner to heat and cook contents of kettles.
* Stirs mixture in kettle to blend and prevent scorching of contents, using hand or power-driven paddles.
* Observes cooking process or tests batch liquor with viscosimeter or hydrometer to verify viscosity or specific gravity and to ascertain completeness of cooking process.
* Starts pump, opens valve, or tilts or scoops contents of kettle into container to unload cooked contents.
* May test batch for sugar content, using refractometer.
* May mix ingredients prior to cooking.
* May be designated according to material cooked as cook, fish eggs; cook, fruit; cook, jelly; cook, juice; cook, sauce; cook, starch.
* May be designated: cook, mayonnaise; cook, pickled meat; cook, preserve; cook, seafood; cook, spaghetti; cook, vegetable.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates conche machine to heat and agitate refined chocolate mass with cocoa butter to enrich color, flavor, and texture. Respnsibilities include:
* Pumps specified amount of chocolate mixture into steam-heated stationary tank or rotary drum.
* Meters out specified amount of such ingredients as cocoa butter or flavorings.
* Turns steam valves and adjusts thermostat to heat contents of tank or drum to specified temperature.
* Pushes lever to start agitators and rotate drum.
* Pushes levers to change rate of agitation, drum rotation, and temperature, following specified time cycles.
* Observes and tastes mixture to evaluate conformity to standard and sends sample to laboratory for analysis.
* Adjusts temperature, agitation speed and timing cycle, and adds ingredients, such as cocoa butter and lecithin, according to laboratory findings.
* Pumps mixture to storage tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates conche machine to heat and agitate refined chocolate mass with cocoa butter to enrich color, flavor, and texture. Respnsibilities include:
* Pumps specified amount of chocolate mixture into steam-heated stationary tank or rotary drum.
* Meters out specified amount of such ingredients as cocoa butter or flavorings.
* Turns steam valves and adjusts thermostat to heat contents of tank or drum to specified temperature.
* Pushes lever to start agitators and rotate drum.
* Pushes levers to change rate of agitation, drum rotation, and temperature, following specified time cycles.
* Observes and tastes mixture to evaluate conformity to standard and sends sample to laboratory for analysis.
* Adjusts temperature, agitation speed and timing cycle, and adds ingredients, such as cocoa butter and lecithin, according to laboratory findings.
* Pumps mixture to storage tank.
Industry:Professional careers
