- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machine that automatically injects meat with curing solution. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts height of injection needles and width of conveyor guides, using wrenches.
* Turns valves to regulate flow and pressure of curing solution in pumping system.
* Starts machine and conveyor.
* Places meat on conveyor that pulls meat under machine injection needle which forces measured amount of curing solution into meat, and dumps treated piece into cart.
* Weighs meat before and after injection to ensure that specified amount of solution has been injected.
* May lift treated meat from conveyor, using handhook, and drop it into tank.
* May inject curing solution into meat, using hand pump, and be designated Pumper, Hand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends series of tanks to inoculate molasses wort with pure yeast culture to produce seed yeast for use in production of baker's yeast. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours molasses wort and chemicals into tank, according to formula, and adds yeast culture from flask.
* Observes thermometer on tank and opens valves to allow water to circulate in coils of tank to maintain specified temperature.
* Pumps air into tank to aerate yeast.
* Tests specific gravity of yeast, using hydrometer, and tests acidity of yeast, using pH meter.
* Adds required chemicals to adjust acidity when necessary.
* Pumps wort to successive tanks as yeast growth progresses.
* Submits samples of wort to laboratory for analysis.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that injects steam into opened hogsheads of tobacco to order tobacco prior to further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Slips end of perforated metal tube over holder of hydraulic press, pushes hogshead under tube, and presses button to activate mechanism that pushes tube into center of tobacco.
* Presses button to release tube and raise press.
* Pulls hogshead from bed of press, throws canvas cover over top of hogshead, pushes hogshead into steam chamber, and connects flexible hose to end of tube protruding from top of hogshead.
* Presses buttons to lower door to seal chamber and to activate steam.
* Turns knobs to build up steam pressure and to activate air pressure that forces steam through air vents of tube into tobacco.
* Sets timer and observes light that signals when tobacco has been conditioned to specifications.
* Flips switch to activate exhaust mechanism that removes steam from chamber.
* Presses button to raise door.
* Pulls hogshead from chamber and removes tube from hogshead, using overhead chain hoist.
* Pushes hogshead to feeder conveyor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends vacuum conditioner (steam-pressure chamber) that moistens opened hogsheads of tobacco for further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens chamber door and pushes hogsheads of tobacco into chamber or starts hydraulic lift that moves hogsheads into chamber.
* Closes chamber door, starts vacuum pump, and turns valve to admit steam into chamber.
* Observes gauges and dials on control panel to determine when temperature and air, steam, and vacuum pressure reach specified levels to force steam through tobacco.
* Removes hogsheads from chamber.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends vacuum conditioner (steam-pressure chamber) that moistens opened hogsheads of tobacco for further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens chamber door and pushes hogsheads of tobacco into chamber or starts hydraulic lift that moves hogsheads into chamber.
* Closes chamber door, starts vacuum pump, and turns valve to admit steam into chamber.
* Observes gauges and dials on control panel to determine when temperature and air, steam, and vacuum pressure reach specified levels to force steam through tobacco.
* Removes hogsheads from chamber.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that saturates tobacco leaves with casing fluid and removes excess fluid from leaves. Respnsibilities include:
* Admits fluid to vat.
* Starts conveyor that feeds leaves through fluid and to wringer rolls of machine, or dumps leaves into vat, allows leaves to absorb moisture for specified time, and feeds moistened leaves between wringer rolls.
* Removes clogged leaves from rollers, using stick.
* Cleans rollers and vat, using steam and airhose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends fermentation tanks to propagate yeast in molasses wort. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves to admit specified amounts of seed yeast and molasses wort into tanks.
* Dumps, pours, or meters measured quantities of nitrogen and phosphate to supplement diet of yeast.
* Pumps air into tank to aerate wort.
* Sets thermostat to maintain prescribed temperature levels in fermentation tanks.
* Tests wort for acidity, using pH meter, and adds specified chemicals to maintain required acidity.
* Adds additional wort and chemicals to tank, as yeast concentration increases, to facilitate yeast growth.
* Pumps wort with yeast cream (concentrated yeast suspension) to yeast-separating department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends steeping tank that saturates barley with water preparatory to germination. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves lever to open slide gate of weighing tank.
* Dumps barley into tank and weighs out specified amount.
* Turns handle to open and load barley into steeping tank.
* Turns water and air valves to fill steeping tank with water, remove chaff, and aerate barley.
* Reads and copies water and air temperature data to maintain record of steeping cycle.
* Drains and refills tank during cycle.
* Turns handles to open steeping tank and dumps steeped barley onto conveyor.
* May tend equipment to germinate barley.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends steeping tank that saturates barley with water preparatory to germination. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves lever to open slide gate of weighing tank.
* Dumps barley into tank and weighs out specified amount.
* Turns handle to open and load barley into steeping tank.
* Turns water and air valves to fill steeping tank with water, remove chaff, and aerate barley.
* Reads and copies water and air temperature data to maintain record of steeping cycle.
* Drains and refills tank during cycle.
* Turns handles to open steeping tank and dumps steeped barley onto conveyor.
* May tend equipment to germinate barley.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shovels beechwood chips (used to impart flavor to beer) from fermenting tank into cart.
* Pushes cart into automatic washer and starts washer.
* Removes cart from washer and shovels washed chips onto floor of fermenting tank.
Industry:Professional careers
