- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who controls guns (pressure cylinders) to expand or puff whole grain to produce breakfast cereal. Respnsibilities include:
* Presses button to admit grain and water to electric- or gas-heated cylinder.
* Clamps lid in place and starts cylinder rotating.
* Turns valves and moves controls to regulate air pressure and temperature in cylinder to obtain product having puffed kernels of specified size, color, and uniformity.
* Removes lid after specified time, causing grain to expand as it escapes from cylinder.
* Examines and feels product to determine need for adjustments in process conditions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment to produce maple syrup. Respnsibilities include:
* Transfers maple sap to evaporator pan placed on stove, allowing product to flow through various compartments of evaporator.
* Pours additional sap into evaporator as needed to maintain uniform temperature.
* Transfers syrup to heated finishing pan when level of product in evaporator indicates evaporation is complete.
* Tests syrup for prescribed consistency by adding quantity of syrup to cold water and observing appearance.
* Filters evaporated syrup through cloths or other filtration media.
* Pours syrup into containers or molds for storage, use, or sale.
* May boil, stir, and evaporate syrup to form variety of maple products, such as maple sugar, wax, butter, or candy, depending on processing temperature and time, and be designated Maple-Products Maker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates heating and mixing equipment (melters) that reclaims uncrystallized sugar from molasses and softens molasses adhering to sugar crystals. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps, turns valves to start flow of molasses, and starts conveyor that dumps sugar crystals into melting tanks.
* Turns steam valves to maintain specified temperature, and starts agitators.
* Observes dials on panelboard and adjusts controls to maintain specified temperature, steam pressure, and density of mixture.
* Tests mixture for alkalinity, using pH meter, and posts data, such as test results, temperature, and density of mixture on report form.
* May mix and store milk of lime solution.
* May add milk of lime to mixture to obtain specified alkalinity.
* May pump liquors to char house for filtration.
* May clean pump screens, using hose and water.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment to process potatoes into instant potato granules. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads laboratory reports to stay apprised of laboratory test results of potato samples taken during processing.
* Observes lights, gauges, and meters on panelboard controls to determine temperature readings of equipment, such as precookers, precoolers, cookers, and driers.
* Turns dials on panelboard to maintain operating temperature ranges as required to meet company standards.
* Flips switches and presses buttons on panelboard to start potato processing equipment, such as feed screws, mixers, cookers, and granule driers.
* Walks through processing areas and observes product consistency and product level in equipment, such as feed screws and cookers.
* Turns equipment controls on panelboard to adjust temperatures of cookers or airflow through driers, utilizing knowledge of product processing.
* Listens for alarms that indicate malfunctions of processing units and takes required steps, such as shutting down equipment and notifying supervisor.
* Records shift activities in log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends steam pressure tanks to extract glue from bones. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valve to admit steam into tank of bones, and observing gauges, adjusts pressure according to specifications.
* Shuts off steam and releases pressure after required period, and drains glue liquor into storage tank.
* Measures density and temperature of liquor, and records hydrometer and thermometer readings on control sheet.
* Weighs out specified amount of zinc sulfate preservative and adds it to glue in storage tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates automatic multicell diffuser to extract sugar juice from beet slices. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts diffuser and auxiliary equipment, such as beet slicers, conveyors, and automatic weighing scales.
* Observes dials and turns controls to regulate flow of beets and water into diffuser, speed of agitators, and temperature of liquid in cells.
* Reads laboratory report to determine sugar content of beets, and adjusts controls to obtain maximum amount of sugar juice.
* Examines diffuser cells to determine if screens are clear, and that liquid levels are maintained at specified height.
* Reads control panel dials and automatic indicators, and records operating data, such as tonnage of beets sliced and diffused, and tonnage of water required to diffuse beet slices.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that melts and pasteurizes butter for use in fortifying and flavoring margarine. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves to admit steam to heat chambers of liquefier and pasteurizer to prescribed temperatures.
* Places butter blocks on revolving table and starts liquefier to melt and deposit liquefied butter into receiving tank.
* Pumps melted butter through pasteurizer and preset cooling unit into holding tank.
* Weighs and adds prescribed ingredients to complete batch.
* Dismantles piping, using handtools.
* Flushes lines, and cleans tanks and equipment, using solvents and water.
* Maintains operating log and temperature charts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that melts and pasteurizes butter for use in fortifying and flavoring margarine. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves to admit steam to heat chambers of liquefier and pasteurizer to prescribed temperatures.
* Places butter blocks on revolving table and starts liquefier to melt and deposit liquefied butter into receiving tank.
* Pumps melted butter through pasteurizer and preset cooling unit into holding tank.
* Weighs and adds prescribed ingredients to complete batch.
* Dismantles piping, using handtools.
* Flushes lines, and cleans tanks and equipment, using solvents and water.
* Maintains operating log and temperature charts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends immersion vats and cooling equipment that chill dressed chickens to prevent spoilage. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts water pumps, agitators, ice feeders, and conveyors and turns valves to control rate of flow and temperature of water circulating through chilling vats.
* Observes flow of ice through troughs that feed conveyor and dislodges caked ice with mallet.
* Reads gauges and thermometers to verify temperatures in chilling vats and cooler.
* Activates mechanical rakes to regulate flow of ice from storage bins to vats.
* Records temperatures on report form.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends cooling tank and crystallizer that starts crystallization of liquid sugar. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves and starts pumps to fill cooling tank with liquid sugar and regulate flow of cold water through cooling coils until specified temperature is attained.
* Turns wing nut to release tension on outlet door of crystallizer and pushes lever to raise door.
* Knocks out sugar plug to allow sugar to flow to centrifugals.
* Measures depth of sugar in crystallizer to ensure that small amount of sugar remains to start crystallization of next batch.
Industry:Professional careers
