- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who measures ingredients according to formula for bakery, dairy, and confectionery batches. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads daily production schedules and selects formula cards for desired batches.
* Weighs dry ingredients on scales or pours liquid ingredients into graduated containers.
* Places assembled ingredients for each batch with identifying batch number on conveyor or handtruck or dumps batches in mixing bowl or machine.
* Records number of batches prepared.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who measures ingredients according to formula for bakery, dairy, and confectionery batches. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads daily production schedules and selects formula cards for desired batches.
* Weighs dry ingredients on scales or pours liquid ingredients into graduated containers.
* Places assembled ingredients for each batch with identifying batch number on conveyor or handtruck or dumps batches in mixing bowl or machine.
* Records number of batches prepared.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who makes and repairs sieves used in flour sifting machines, using handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Tacks cotton cloth lining onto frame and stretches and staples wire screen across bottom.
* Places free-moving cloth pads in frame.
* Stretches and tacks silk cloth across top of frame.
* Tacks strips of cotton flannel around outer sides of frame so sieve fits snugly into machine.
* Removes and replaces defective parts of damaged sieves.
* May be designated according to function as Sieve Repairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically rolls cigars and cheroots. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and positions wrapper leaf on die of machine.
* Pulls handle that lowers knife and cuts wrapper leaf in shape of die.
* Feeds cut wrapper leaves into machine along with bunches.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically presses and slices cased (tobacco with flavoring added), shredded tobacco into lumps of chewing tobacco. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns knobs to adjust speed of machine conveyor according to brand, grade, and weight of cased tobacco.
* Starts machine and observes operation to detect malfunctions, such as jam-ups or uneven flow of tobacco entering machine.
* Stops machine to remove tobacco caught between pressing rollers or weighing unit.
* Weighs random lumps to verify accuracy of reject weighing unit, using scale.
* Turns knob to adjust weighing unit as necessary to maintain standard weight of lumps.
* Replenishes containers with alcohol solution that is automatically sprayed on machine rollers and conveyor to prevent sticking of cased tobacco.
* Cleans machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends unit of fresh-work cigar machine that cuts binder leaves. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine.
* Flattens binder leaf and lays it on suction plate die.
* Repositions leaf on die as machine cuts and removes portions.
* Brushes leaf scraps into box.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that automatically grind, sift, weigh, blend, and convey milk powders to instantizing and filling vats. Respnsibilities include:
* Slides specified screens into grinder, opens chutes on conveyor, and dumps blended powder into vat.
* Weighs ingredients, such as potash, salt, soda, and vitamins, according to formula, and dumps them into blending machine.
* Starts machines that automatically grind and screen chunks of dried milk, weigh and blend powder with other ingredients, and convey blended powder to instantizing or filling vats.
* May weigh prescribed amount of liquid lecithin and pump into blending vat.
* May operate power lift truck to move material.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends beverage inspection machine, equipped with photoelectric cell, that automatically detects and rejects filled beverage bottles containing solid impurities. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyor that conveys bottles filled with alcoholic or nonalcoholic beverages through inspection machine.
* Removes rejected bottles from reject tray and examines contents of bottles in front of inspection light to verify presence of solid impurities.
* Drops bottles containing impurities in refuge container for disposal.
* Observes bottles on conveyor to detect jamming or bottle defects, such as chips and cracks.
* Drops defective bottles in refuse container for disposal.
* Removes fallen or other bottles blocking feed or discharge openings of inspection machine and replaces bottles on conveyor.
* Periodically places test bottle in feed opening of inspection machine and examines reject tray for bottle to ensure that machine is operative.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to make frozen stick confections, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions mold pan under filler spouts and presses pedal to fill pan with ice cream, fruit juice, or syrup mix.
* Places tray against machine and pushes levers to insert and lock sticks in tray slots.
* Places tray over mold pan and presses switch or pushes pans to move them over brine tank to freeze ingredient onto sticks.
* Dips frozen mold pans into water to defrost and removes tray of stick bars.
* Dips tray of frozen bars into chocolate and places tray on conveyor leading to chill tunnel.
* Fills dispensers of bagging machine, positions tray over bagging chutes, and pulls lever to drop bars into bags.
* Turns valves, controls, and switches to alter level of mix in molds, flow of ingredients into filler hopper and chocolate tank, or temperature of chocolate or brine.
* May test brine content, using hydrometer and add salt to maintain prescribed strength.
* May mix flavor, sugar, and water to make flavored ice mixes.
* May fill dispensers and remove jammed sticks from automatic stick machines.
* May be designated according to work performed as Mold Filler; Mold Remover; Stick Inserter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends chutes and raking machine to feed and spread tobacco evenly into bulks. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens chute to direct flow of tobacco into bulks and starts rake.
* Adjusts angle of rake to spread tobacco evenly in bulks.
Industry:Professional careers
