- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machines that extract juice from citrus fruit. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machines, observes fruit rolling down chutes, and clears jams by prodding fruit with stick.
* Inspects machine for proper functioning.
* Examines refuse to determine whether maximum amount of juice had been extracted.
* Notifies supervisor of needed adjustments or faulty machine operation.
* Stops machines when signal indicates juice tanks are filled.
* Lubricates and cleans machines.
* May make minor adjustments to machines.
* May change reamer heads for different fruit sizes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends filter presses that remove solids, such as carbon, proteins, and filtracell, from solution to produce glucose syrup of standard color and clarity. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to control flow of material through press.
* Folds and jams edges of filter cloths between plates to seal leaks in press, using sharp-edged tool.
* Observes gauges for increased pressure which indicate need for cleaning presses, and notifies press pullers when cleaning is required.
* Starts agitator and pumps that transfer filtrate into tank.
* Washes filter cloths in washing machine.
* May add activated carbon to tank to decolorize filtrate.
* May tend vacuum or cloth filter press that removes water from corn tailings used in preparing stock feed and be known as Press Tender, Head, Feed House.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of machines that clean rough grain preparatory to milling, and mill, brush, grade, and polish grain. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machines, such as shelling stones, grain hullers, paddy separators, grain brush, grain cleaning machine, and grain polisher.
* Turns wheels to adjust feeder equipment of machines.
* Turns valves to regulate flow of compressed air into machines to blow chaff and dust from grain.
* Examines grain during processing to ensure that production and quality standards are met.
* Adjusts machines.
* Opens gates on feed pipes to route grain to designated milling machines.
* Performs maintenance duties, such as scraping sieves in machine with stick to remove dirt, straw, or other foreign material, lubricating equipment, and tightening belts, bolts, and nuts, using mechanics handtools.
* Gauges height of grain in storage tank, using tape measure.
* Converts measurement to number of bushels in bin, using conversion chart.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of rotary or oscillating screens that segregate vegetables, such as peas and beets, according to size. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts motors to activate screens and observes peas passing over screens to prevent clogging and overflow.
* Observes signal and opens hopper gate to permit peas of specified size and grade to drop into whitening trough for decolorization.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates centrifugal machines to separate and wash molasses and mother liquor (syrup) from sugar crystals. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens gate allowing sugar mass to flow into centrifuge basket.
* Starts centrifuge that automatically passes through cycles of spinning off mother liquor, washing off molasses, and spinning off washwater.
* Lifts plate covering bottom of basket, positions cutting arm over sugar and starts machine to cut sugar crystals from inside basket.
* Washes centrifuge, using hose.
* May be designated by type of sugar processed as Soft-Sugar Cutter; White-Sugar Centrifugal Operator; or purpose of operation as Cubelet-Centrifugal Operator; Low-Raw-Sugar Cutter; Melt-House Centrifugal Operator; Remelt-Centrifugal Operator; Remelt-Sugar Cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates one or more hydraulic cocoa presses that remove specified amounts of cocoa butter (natural oil of cocoa bean) from chocolate liquor. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pump to remove liquor from storage to steam-heated tanks.
* Observes thermometers and sets thermostat to heat liquor to specified temperature.
* Sets pressure gauge and stroke of ram on cocoa press, according to specifications, using handtools.
* Starts press to activate ram that automatically fills pots with chocolate liquor, extrudes specified amounts of cocoa butter into holding tank, and ejects cocoa cakes onto conveyor.
* Records weight of cocoa butter as indicated on scale-equipped holding tank.
* May start pump to move cocoa butter into storage tank through filters or centrifugal separator to remove cocoa residue.
* May fill pots, remove and stack cocoa cakes, and install steel and fiber separator pads by hand when machine is nonautomatic.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment to regauge, filter, rectify, blend, and verify proof of whiskeys and other distilled liquors, preparatory to bottling. Respnsibilities include:
* Pumps specified number of gallons of whiskey and deionized water into regauging tanks (reducing tanks) and agitates mixture with compressed air to reduce proof of barreled whiskey.
* Measures temperature, using thermometer, and specific gravity, using alcohol-proof hydrometer, and compares readings with tables from standard gauging manuals to determine proof of mixture.
* Pumps regauged whiskey into cooling tank and opens valves to circulate cold water through coil pipes in tank to reduce whiskey to specified temperature before filtering.
* Starts filter press to remove impurities from distilled liquor, and adjusts valves to control vacuum pressure in press and to regulate flow of liquor through press.
* Observes dials and gauges to ascertain that temperature and pressure remain constant during filtering process.
* Pumps different proofs of whiskeys into agitating tank, adds specified amount of deionized water, and agitates mixture to blend whiskeys.
* Mixes flavorings and other ingredients, according to formula, into mixing tank with specified number of gallons of spirits, such as gin or vodka, and adjusts valves to control temperature and compressed air to produce brandies, cordials, and fortified beverages.
* May specialize in one phase of processing and be designated according to duties performed as Rectifying Attendant; Whiskey Filterer; Whiskey-Proof Reader; Whiskey-Regauger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates drier, huller, separator, steel cutter, cooker, and flake roller machines to produce wheat and oats flakes, according to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts slides in chutes and turns valves to regulate flow of grain to machines.
* Adjusts flow of air to dry grain and feels grain to determine hulling capability.
* Observes hulling process and adjusts speed of machines that remove and separate hulls from oats.
* Turns valves to regulate temperature and moisture in cooker, and adjusts tension on flaking-machine rolls, according to hardness and size of grain.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates drier, huller, separator, steel cutter, cooker, and flake roller machines to produce wheat and oats flakes, according to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts slides in chutes and turns valves to regulate flow of grain to machines.
* Adjusts flow of air to dry grain and feels grain to determine hulling capability.
* Observes hulling process and adjusts speed of machines that remove and separate hulls from oats.
* Turns valves to regulate temperature and moisture in cooker, and adjusts tension on flaking-machine rolls, according to hardness and size of grain.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends grinding mills that process baked or dried bulk cereal products prior to packaging. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts grinder and opens chute gate on hopper to direct bulk cereal between grinding rolls.
* Sifts handful of ground and graded cereal through set of screens to determine whether cereal has been ground to specified size.
* Moves levers to adjust roll clearance in grinder to produce cereal comparable to that of screened sample.
* Cleans and replaces clogged or worn screens.
Industry:Professional careers
