- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who sorts agricultural produce, such as bulbs, fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Respnsibilities include:
* Segregates produce on conveyor belt or table, working as crewmember, according to grade, color, and size, and places produce in containers or on designated conveyors.
* Discards cull (inferior or defective) items and foreign matter.
* Bunches, ties, and trims produce, such as asparagus, carrots, celery, and radishes.
* Picks out choice produce to be used as cappers (top layers on marketing containers).
* Packs produce in boxes, barrels, baskets, or crates for storage or shipment.
* May be designated according to work performed as apple sorter; asparagus grader and buncher; capper picker; citrus-fruit-packing grader; cull grader; potato grader.
* May be designated: asparagus sorter; banana grader; bulb sorter; cherry sorter; cranberry sorter; fig sorter; flower grader; fruit sorter; hop sorter; nut sorter; peach sorter; potato sorter; seed sorter; tomato grader; vegetable sorter; mushroom sorter-grader; trimmer-sorter; sorter-grader; raspberry checker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans or replaces stones in carbonating-stone assembly used to introduce carbon dioxide into tanks of beer. Respnsibilities include:
* Carries stone to work area.
* Climbs into aging tank and disassembles frame and stone assembly, using handtools.
* Examines stone to detect faults or breaks.
* Scrubs stone, using brush and cleaners.
* Reassembles stone in frame.
* Discards faulty stones.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans or replaces stones in carbonating-stone assembly used to introduce carbon dioxide into tanks of beer. Respnsibilities include:
* Carries stone to work area.
* Climbs into aging tank and disassembles frame and stone assembly, using handtools.
* Examines stone to detect faults or breaks.
* Scrubs stone, using brush and cleaners.
* Reassembles stone in frame.
* Discards faulty stones.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans perforated suction plates of cigar-making machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns thumbscrews to remove plates.
* Scrubs plates, using scrub brush and water.
* Immerses plates in boiling water to loosen dirt in airholes and blows out dirt, using airhose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes hands of Sumatra tobacco from case or bale, shakes tobacco, removes broken leaves, and piles hands in stacks according to moisture content.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects temperature readings of meat coolers for conformance to standards. Respnsibilities include:
* Tours coolers periodically and compares temperature readings of each cooler with charts.
* Adjusts expansion valves in coolers to maintain specified temperature in each cooler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans trolleys used to move animal carcasses along overhead rail, in vats or tanks filled with solution. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns water and steam valves to fill and heat cleaning vats or tanks.
* Dumps caustic soda and detergents into tank and stirs mixture with paddle.
* Pushes rack of trolleys to tank and lowers each trolley into solution, or immerses rack into solution, using hoist.
* Removes trolleys from solution and rinses them in hot water spray.
* Lubricates trolley wheels.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who washes and removes starch deposits from starch tables by flushing table with stream of water. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs water hose over starch table to wash film of gluten from starch deposits.
* Plugs line to gluten tank at end of table and raises tailboard to allow starch deposit to flow to flushing tank.
* Turns valve to admit strong stream of water into starch table that loosens and flushes starch deposits into flushing tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who washes and removes starch deposits from starch tables by flushing table with stream of water. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs water hose over starch table to wash film of gluten from starch deposits.
* Plugs line to gluten tank at end of table and raises tailboard to allow starch deposit to flow to flushing tank.
* Turns valve to admit strong stream of water into starch table that loosens and flushes starch deposits into flushing tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans beet washroom in sugar beet refinery. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes beet tails, mud, stones, and trash from washer pit, using shovel.
* Removes debris from area of washroom, using wheelbarrow, pitchfork, and shovel.
* Washes floors, using hose.
Industry:Professional careers
