- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who cracks nuts, such as pecans, brazil nuts, and walnuts, using vise.
* Picks out nut meats and drops meat in container.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates refining machines equipped with rollers to grind chocolate paste in accordance with specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyor to feed chocolate into refiner hoppers.
* Feels consistency of chocolate in hoppers to determine grinding required.
* Turns handwheels on machine to adjust clearance between rollers.
* Opens hopper and starts machine that feeds chocolate between rollers of refining machine.
* Observes thermometer or feels rollers and turns water valves to obtain specified temperature of rollers.
* Examines, feels, and tastes ground chocolate paste to ascertain if color, texture, and taste meet standards.
* Collects sample of paste for laboratory analysis.
* May observe flowmeters and turn valves to measure out cocoa butter, vegetable oil, and other ingredients, according to formula, and to fortify chocolate in mixing tanks.
* May scoop refined chocolate paste into wheeled troughs or barrels.
* May weigh and transport barrels to cold storage rooms, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates peeling machine to behead and peel shrimp preparatory to canning or freezing. Respnsibilities include:
* Spaces peeling rolls on machine, according to size of shrimp to be processed and adjusts holding rack bars to intermesh between rolls, using wrenches.
* Turns thumbscrews to adjust spring tension on holding rack bars, according to shrimp size and turns valves to start water flow over rolls.
* Starts machine and feed conveyor and spreads shrimp over feed pan at head of rolls to ensure even distribution, using wooden rake.
* Examines samples of peeled shrimp to ensure conformance with standards.
* Adjusts roll spacing and holding for tension as required.
* Dismantles and cleans machine with high-pressure stream from water hose.
* May sterilize machine parts by directing hot water or live steam over them with hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes hulls and foreign matter from almonds. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and dumps almonds into hopper of machine.
* Moves levers to control flow of almonds from hopper to machine that agitates screens or cylinders to remove hulls from almonds.
* Turns valve to regulate pressure and directional flow of air that separates loose hulls, twigs and foreign matter from nuts.
* Observes almonds as they pass on conveyor belt from machine to ascertain that hulls are removed.
* Changes screens or adjusts cylinders of machine to accommodate different varieties of almonds, using wrench.
* May sew sacks of almonds.
* May nail covers on crates filled with hulled almonds.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends almond-blanching machine that removes skins from almonds. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to fill kettle of machine with water and to admit steam into heating chamber of kettle.
* Observes steam pressure and water temperature gauges, and turns valves to regulate steam pressure and water temperature, according to specifications.
* Actuates machine to start flow of almonds into kettle.
* Turns handwheel to adjust rollers that squeeze skins from almonds.
* Observes blanched (skinned) almonds as they emerge from blanching machine and makes necessary adjustments to machine to ensure that skins are removed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that dices, halves, slices, or slivers almond meats. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs specified cutting blades, using handtools.
* Actuates machine to start flow of almond meats into machine.
* Examines cut almond meats to check for conformance with cutting specifications.
* Adjusts cutting blades as required.
* Inserts different blades into machine to accommodate various sizes of almonds.
* Sharpens blades with file or bench grinder. May be designated according to function of machine tended as Dicer-Machine Operator; Halver-Machine Operator; Slicer-Machine Operator; Sliver-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to maintain specific gravity of starch suspensions emerging from filter machines and starch-flushing system, and transfers solution for conversion into sugar and glucose. Respnsibilities include:
* Dips sample from breaker tank and tests for specific gravity, using hydrometer.
* Turns valves to return suspension for reflushing if density does not meet standards.
* Starts tank agitators to prevent starch from settling.
* Turns valves and starts pumps to transfer solution to storage tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that bleaches and filters unrefined lard or edible oil. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps to draw unrefined material from storage tank into bleaching kettle.
* Dumps prescribed amount of fuller's earth into kettle to absorb impurities in material.
* Starts agitators to mix materials.
* Turns valves to allow steam or cool water to circulate through bleacher coils to heat or cool material to specified temperature.
* Draws sample of material for laboratory analysis.
* Dumps additional fuller's earth in kettle as directed.
* Inserts new filter cloths on filter plates.
* Starts pumps to draw material from bleaching kettle and force it through filter-press.
* Starts pumps to drain bleached and filtered material from filter-press tank into storage tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that bleaches and filters unrefined lard or edible oil. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps to draw unrefined material from storage tank into bleaching kettle.
* Dumps prescribed amount of fuller's earth into kettle to absorb impurities in material.
* Starts agitators to mix materials.
* Turns valves to allow steam or cool water to circulate through bleacher coils to heat or cool material to specified temperature.
* Draws sample of material for laboratory analysis.
* Dumps additional fuller's earth in kettle as directed.
* Inserts new filter cloths on filter plates.
* Starts pumps to draw material from bleaching kettle and force it through filter-press.
* Starts pumps to drain bleached and filtered material from filter-press tank into storage tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends banks of sifting and purifying machines that separate fine flour from coarse flour or middlings. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens spouts and adjusts feed slides to route flour to machines and to regulate flow across sifters without overloading.
* Feels sifted flour to detect uneven texture that indicates breaks in screens.
* Pulls screen frames from machine to locate and replace broken screens.
* Records weights of flour grades produced as indicated on automatic scales.
* May collect flour samples periodically for laboratory testing.
* May perform color tests of flour, comparing color of various batches to maintain quality of milled product.
* May be designated according to machine tended as Purifier.
Industry:Professional careers
