- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends equipment that coats popcorn or similar food product with melted cheese. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps salt into hopper of salt-sprinkling device.
* Measures out specified quantity of cheese and coconut oil into thermostatically controlled melting and mixing kettle.
* Starts conveyor to admit popcorn to rotating drum.
* Starts drum rotating and pump that forces melted cheese through spray nozzle onto popcorn.
* Places container at discharge end of drum to receive coated popcorn.
* Transfers filled containers to packing room, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends coating and drying equipment that coats cereal products, such as flakes or puffed grain, with syrup, vitamin mixture, or other liquid. Respnsibilities include:
* Lights gas burners or turns steam valve to attain specified temperature in drier and syrup storage tank.
* Starts revolving drum and conveyors that feed cereal product into drum and through drier.
* Pumps liquid from storage tank to perforated spraying pipe in drum.
* Adjusts speed of conveyor and drum to coat cereal to specified thickness, indicated by feel and color inspection.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that sprays crackers with oil to impart color and prevent drying out. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours oil into reservoir, using pail.
* Adjusts steam valve to heat oil to specified temperature.
* Starts machine and turns valves to regulate spray of oil on crackers.
* Feeds crackers onto conveyor.
* Weighs sampling of crackers to measure amount of oil being applied.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically injects cream filling into snack-size cakes. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pump to fill machine hopper with filling.
* Presses button to activate conveyor that conveys cakes under nozzles that automatically inject filling into cakes.
* Observes cakes being filled to ascertain that cream is injected into center of cakes in prescribed portions.
* Observes action of automatic dumping device at end of conveyor to ensure that all cakes in pan are dumped onto another conveyor which routes them for packaging.
* Cleans residual filling from machine hopper and nozzles.
* May turn hand valves to regulate pressurized flow and quantities of cream filling injected into cakes.
* May collect and weigh measured amounts of aerated filling to ensure conformance with gravity specifications.
* May remove, discard, and keep tally of unacceptable cakes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that coats baked products with premixed icing. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads machine hopper with icing, using scoop.
* Starts machine and places products to be iced on conveyor.
* Turns valve on hopper to regulate flow of icing.
* May be designated according to product iced as Bread Icer, Machine (bakery products); Cake Icer, Machine (bakery products); Doughnut Icer, Machine (bakery products); Pie Icer, Machine (bakery products); Roll Icer, Machine (bakery products).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically dispenses cheese onto tortillas to form enchiladas or ground meat onto taco shells to form tacos. Respnsibilities include:
* Fills vat with meat or cheese mixture and turns control knobs to regulate flow of filling through dispenser mechanism.
* Presses button to convey tortillas or taco shells under dispenser mechanism.
* Periodically weighs sample product, using scale, and turns knob to adjust dispenser flow to maintain specified weight of product.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who arranges candy centers on conveyor leading to enrobing (coating) machine according to specified feeding sequence. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects assorted centers from boxes or trays and places them in rows on conveyor belt to conform to individual box or layer arrangement.
* Removes malformed or broken centers and places them in salvage box.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to make ice cream novelties, such as pies, cake rolls, cones, and vari-colored packs. Respnsibilities include:
* Ladles fruit sauce over ice cream pie.
* Places layer of cake roll on tray and sets tray on conveyor.
* Cuts continuous ribbon of ice cream deposited on cake, using knife.
* Rolls up cake.
* Places roll in slicing machine and pulls lever to cut and eject slices onto packing table.
* Rotates transparent containers under nozzle that fills containers with vari-colored ice cream.
* Places cones, cups, pie plates, and other containers into dispenser of automatic filling machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts candied cherries into halves for use in decorating cakes, using sharp hand knife.
* May assist in the packing department as directed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who garnishes candy and fills dried or pitted fruit, such as prunes, dates, peaches, and figs, with nuts to make confections. Respnsibilities include:
* Places nuts on top or presses them into candy or fruit items.
* Rolls candy in chopped or ground nut meats to coat product.
* May be designated according to task performed as Fruit Stuffer; Roller II.
Industry:Professional careers
