- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machines that crush, shave, cut, or cube ice. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls blocks of ice into working area with tongs, and breaks ice into chunks, using ice pick or pronged bar.
* Feeds ice into hoppers of crushing or shaving machines.
* Places bag under discharge chute and pulls lever to fill bag with crushed or shaved ice.
* Ties wire around bag, marks weight on bag, and slides bag into storage room.
* Cuts blocks of ice to specified size, using handsaw, power saw, or heated shear-blade.
* Pushes sections of ice over series of rotating saws that cut it into layers, rows, and cubes.
* May be designated according to work performed as Cube Cutter; Ice Crusher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment, such as grinders and mixers, and performs any combination of following tasks to convert vegetables and grain, such as potatoes, corn, and wheat, into starch. Respnsibilities include:
* Transports grain or vegetable from storage, using lift truck, opens sacks, and dumps materials into chute or conveyor leading to grinding mill.
* Tends hammermill that removes foreign matter and grinds grain or vegetable into particles to form starch paste.
* Turns valves and starts pumps and paddle agitators to transfer starch solution to settling vat, flush impurities from surface of solution, using water hose, drain water, and mix fresh water with settled starch.
* Adds and mixes chemicals to starch milk as directed.
* Starts pump, centrifuges, and driers to remove excess moisture from white (purified) starch.
* Fills and weighs bags of dried starch and transports bags to storage, using lift or handtruck.
* May be designated Door Slinger when opening and closing lever-actuated doors of starch kiln.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that cooks animal fat, and filters and bleaches oil. Respnsibilities include:
* Cooks fat in steam-jacketed kettle.
* Turns valve to admit rendered oil to agitator tank.
* Starts agitator, and turns valve to heat tank.
* Dumps specified amount of fuller's earth (bleaching agent) into tank.
* Turns valves to transfer oil through filter drums into storage tank.
* May add preservative solution to lard in mixing tank and press button to blend ingredients.
* May be designated according to material handled as Oleo-Hasher-And-Renderer (oils & grease).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that automatically tie stuffed casings into links to form meat products, such as frankfurters, sausages, and wieners. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads string into tying mechanism of machine and turns screws to regulate length of links.
* Starts machine and feeds end of stuffed casing into machine.
* Hangs string of linked casings on racks or rods for transfer to smokeroom.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machinery that grinds and mixes frozen meat with water according to formula for use in baby food. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens cartons of specified weight meat and places specified weight into automatic dumping mechanism of grinder.
* Turns valves and presses buttons to start grinder, conveyor, mixing machine, and pump that grind and blend meat with specified amount of water, and transfer mixture to storage tanks.
* Observes conveyor to prevent jamming and rakes meat from jammed conveyor into mixing machine.
* Occasionally weighs, cuts, and adds additional chunks of meat into grinder to meet batch weight specifications, using platform scale and electric bandsaw.
* Records batches processed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends moisture-machine that automatically moistens filler tobacco preparatory to processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes button to start automatic machine which forces prongs through boxes of tobacco to release preset amount of steam.
* Observes gauges to ensure that specified amount of steam pressure is maintained.
* Stops machine and notifies supervisor of machine malfunctions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that roasts, blanches, and cleans shelled nuts. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets temperature and time controls on oven for roasting process.
* Fills trays with nuts by hand and places trays in oven, or dumps nuts into feeder bin of screen conveyorized cooker or rotary drum in oven.
* Removes sample of nuts from oven, using spoon, compares nuts with color standard, and adjusts time and temperature controls of oven to ensure specified roasting.
* Removes specified number of trays of roasted nuts from oven for further processing, or pulls lever to empty roasted nuts from rotary oven into bin.
* Smooths out nuts in bin, using rake.
* Pushes bin over forced draft air vent to cool nuts.
* Tilts bin by hand or by hoist to dump cooled nuts into hopper of machines that remove skins, sprouts, stones, shell particles, and dirt, and starts machine.
* May immerse and roast nuts in hot oil bath.
* May coat nuts with liquid gum arabic prior to roasting to provide adhesive surface for salt.
* May sprinkle nuts with salt, garlic, cheese, or other seasonings by hand or by using automatic equipment.
* May pack nuts in bags or sacks.
* May be designated according to kind of nut roasted as Almond Roaster; Peanut Roaster; or according to whether oil is used as Dry Roaster; Wet Roaster.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that make peanut butter. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves to fill mixing chamber with roasted nuts, and adds specified amounts of salt, sugar, and homogenizing ingredients.
* Observes gauges to determine if temperature in mixing chamber is within specified limits.
* Turns dial to regulate speed of pumps which force mixture through grinding chambers.
* Opens valves to allow mixture to flow from one grinding chamber to another to obtain specified texture, and transfer ground mixture into cooling mixer.
* May tend automatic equipment that roasts nuts, fills, labels, and caps containers, and packs containers in shipping cartons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts plugs of chewing or smoking tobacco into plugs of specified size for retailing. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads plugs into hopper that discharges plugs onto conveyor leading to knives.
* Starts flow of flavoring onto knives or wipes knives with cloth dipped in flavoring to lubricate cutters.
* May scrape cutting knives with blade to remove tobacco particles.
* May tend cellophane-wrapping machine in tandem with cutter.
* May pack plugs in cartons manually.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that wraps lumps of chewing tobacco in homogenized leaf prior to further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts roll of homogenized leaf on holding rod of machine and guides leaf through rollers and under cutter.
* Pours glue into container.
* Starts machine and observes operation of machine to detect malfunctions.
* Stops machine when malfunction or jam-up occurs, and removes lump end leaf from machine to clear jam-up.
* Sprays machine parts with alcohol to prevent tobacco sticking and notifies mechanic when machine requires adjustment or repair.
Industry:Professional careers
