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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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Company Profile:
A professional who opens chute gates to release fish into various bins, according to species, and onto conveyor for transfer to cleaning machine. * Expedites flow of fish, using wooden rake, hoe, or water hose. * Shovels chipped ice into bins to preserve fish. * Sorts fish according to species and size, and discards spoiled or damaged fish.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans and packs fish eggs for commercial purposes. Respnsibilities include: * Rubs clusters of eggs over screen to separate eggs according to size. * Dumps eggs into vat of cleaning solution to remove blood and into barrel of brine to cure eggs. * Shovels processed eggs into containers for shipment, or fills jars with eggs, using scoop. * Works as member of crew. * May prepare curing and cleaning solutions, according to formula.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans and packs fish eggs for commercial purposes. Respnsibilities include: * Rubs clusters of eggs over screen to separate eggs according to size. * Dumps eggs into vat of cleaning solution to remove blood and into barrel of brine to cure eggs. * Shovels processed eggs into containers for shipment, or fills jars with eggs, using scoop. * Works as member of crew. * May prepare curing and cleaning solutions, according to formula.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects cigars from fresh-work cigar machine to determine conformance to standards. Respnsibilities include: * Weighs random bundles of cigars to determine whether cigars are of prescribed weight and notifies supervisor, cigar-making machine when weight is not standard. * Inspects cigars for broken tobacco wrappers, soft spots, defective patches, and variations from standard length and discards defective cigars. * May place full boxes of perfect cigars in case.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines, classifies, and separates seafood according to size, quality, color, condition, or species at receiving station or on conveyor line. * May record grade on ticket and attach ticket to filled container. * May be designated according to product graded as Clam Grader; Fish Grader.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and grades dressed poultry. Respnsibilities include: * Removes dressed poultry from conveyor, and examines color of skin, feels poultry for presence of bruises, deformities, and pin feathers, and grades accordingly for quality and size. * Sorts poultry into specified containers according to grade. * May weigh filled containers and record weight of each grade of poultry.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and sorts pork cuts, such as hams, shoulders, bellies, and fatbacks, preparatory to curing. Respnsibilities include: * Examines and feels meat for defects, such as bruises, thickness of skin, shape, and broken leg bones. * Segregates pork cuts not meeting standards. * Weighs and segregates cuts according to weight and size. * May push thermometer into meat to ascertain if it is too cold for processing. * May stamp government inspection seal on approved lean shoulders, using rubber stamp.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who separates and weighs samples of grain preparatory to grading. Respnsibilities include: * Pours grain sample into hopper of sample divider and pulls lever to allow grain to fall through divider into two receptacles. * Removes and weighs specific amount of grain from each receptacle to obtain representative but reduced sample. * Pours sample into cleaning mill (dockage tester) or through sieve of standard mesh to remove foreign matter. * Smells and examines sample to determine if grain is sour or musty, or to detect damage from excessive heat or moisture. * Pours grain sample into standard quart kettle, weighs sample, and reads conversion chart to obtain weight per bushel. * Separates damaged, weathered, soil-stained, and undeveloped grain from grain with no defects and places grain in separate containers. * May remove grain sample from incoming shipments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who smells opened cans of food products as they pass on conveyor to detect spoilage as indicated by odor. * Sets aside rejected cans of food for disposal.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who smells opened cans of food products as they pass on conveyor to detect spoilage as indicated by odor. * Sets aside rejected cans of food for disposal.
Industry:Professional careers