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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 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