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A professional who tends automatic equipment and machinery that pulverizes cocoa cakes into powder of specified fineness and weighs and bags cocoa powders. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyors to move cocoa cakes through rollers of crusher into hammer mill for grinding into powder, through cooling chamber, and into air classification system which separates powder, according to density.
* Feels cocoa to ascertain fineness and collects sample for laboratory analysis.
* Fastens bag to holding tank outlet and pushes button to discharge specified amount of cocoa into bag through automatic weighing device.
* Verifies weight of filled bags, using scale.
* Closes bag and stacks bag on skids.
* May move cocoa cakes from storage area preparatory to dumping into hopper of crusher, using pallets and handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that grind coffee beans to specified fineness. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls lever or adjusts control to regulate flow of coffee beans into grinding machines.
* Starts machines and turns dials or moves levers to adjust grinding rollers.
* May control conveyors that carry ground coffee to storage bins.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that grind coffee beans to specified fineness. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls lever or adjusts control to regulate flow of coffee beans into grinding machines.
* Starts machines and turns dials or moves levers to adjust grinding rollers.
* May control conveyors that carry ground coffee to storage bins.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends grinding machine that hulls cooked corn and grinds it into masa (cornmeal dough) for use in production of products, such as tortillas and corn chips. Respnsibilities include:
* Scoops cooked corn into hopper of grinding machine or attaches pipe to outlet on soaking vat and starts pump to transfer corn from holding vat through washer and onto conveyor that carries corn into hopper of grinder.
* Starts grinder.
* Feels masa to determine consistency of grind, and adjusts grinding stones when necessary.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends semiautomatic machine that crushes and rolls cooked corn into dough for use in various prepared food products. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and moves controls to set speed of grinder screws and clearance of spreader rollers to produce dough of specified texture and thickness.
* Fingers handful of dough to verify texture and fineness of grind.
* Moves controls to synchronize conveyor speed with machine action, maintaining dough supply at efficient level for production of food products by other workers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends series of multiple roller mills that grind sugarcane to extract sugar juice.
* Moves levers to feed shredded sugarcane into mills.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends series of multiple roller mills that grind sugarcane to extract sugar juice.
* Moves levers to feed shredded sugarcane into mills.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that crushes grapes to form must (juice, pulp, and skins of grape) for use in making wine. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and regulates rate of flow of grapes into crusher.
* Opens outlet valves to drain must into fermenting tanks.
* Starts refuse conveyor that removes stems from machine.
* Removes debris from crusher reservoir (sump) and outlets.
* Cleans and lubricates machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that crushes grapes to form must (juice, pulp, and skins of grape) for use in making wine. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and regulates rate of flow of grapes into crusher.
* Opens outlet valves to drain must into fermenting tanks.
* Starts refuse conveyor that removes stems from machine.
* Removes debris from crusher reservoir (sump) and outlets.
* Cleans and lubricates machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts frozen meats, such as fish, poultry, and beef into pieces preparatory to grinding. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps cartons of food product onto cutting table.
* Starts machine and positions meat in front of pusher.
* Starts automatic pusher or turns handwheel to push meat into cutter, and to regulate thickness of cut.
* May record weight of meat cut.
Industry:Professional careers
