- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machine that removes heads, fins, viscera, and tails from fish preparatory to canning. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and conveyor system.
* Positions fish on feed table and aligns head with cutting knife.
* Places beheaded fish in machine feed trough and pushes tail into teeth of fish cleaning machine.
* Pulls lever to regulate speed of conveyors.
* May replace worn knives, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines and equipment that grind, mix, form, and cook raw fish to make fishcakes. Respnsibilities include:
* Skins and bones fish, using knife.
* Places boned fish in grinding machine that grinds fish into paste.
* Dumps paste in mixing machine and adds specified amounts of ingredients, such as flour, water, and spices.
* Feeds mixed ingredients into extrusion machine that forms and places fishcakes onto conveyor for transfer to automatic deep-fry cooker, freezing tunnel, and packaging machine.
* May cook cakes in steam cooker or fries cakes in oil.
* May wrap cooked fishcakes in wax paper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that extracts cereal flavoring from mixture of malt, sugar, salt, water, and other ingredients. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valve to fill mixing tank with water.
* Dumps specified amount of malt into hopper, from which it is fed through crimping rolls and into mixing tank.
* Starts agitator revolving in tank.
* Opens valve admitting steam to tank jacket or lights gas burners to maintain specified temperature of mix for prescribed time.
* Turns valve to drain liquid into flavor tank.
* Dumps sugar, salt, and other ingredients into tank according to formula, and turns valve to pump mixture to storage tank.
* Removes spent mash from mixing tank, using hoe, and dumps it into feed trough.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment, such as blenders, roasters and grinders, and performs any combination of following tasks to prepare ice cream flavoring, coloring, and nut and fruit mixtures. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs or measures specified quantities of ingredients, such as syrup, sugar, water, butter, fruit pulp, fruit juice, salt, dye, and gelatin, using graduate.
* Dumps ingredients into blending vat.
* Turns valve and starts agitator to heat and blend contents for specified period.
* Opens valve to start flow of blend to storage vat, or moves it to processing unit, using handtruck.
* Fills hopper of nut grinder and turns knob to adjust teeth for desired grind.
* Dumps ground nuts into roaster and adjusts burner to roast them.
* Dumps prepared fruits into sieve to remove juice.
* Observes ingredients and removes foreign matter.
* Sprays containers and equipment with sterilizing solution to clean them.
* Maintains inventory of supplies.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that grinds dried fruit preparatory to making natural fruit confections. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps mixed dried fruit, such as raisins, dates, figs, and prunes, into machine hopper and starts grinder.
* Places container at machine discharge outlet to receive ground fruit.
* Removes filled container and molds ground fruit into circular shape by hand.
* Cuts molded fruit into equal bars, using hand held cutting wheel.
* Places bars onto tray preparatory to coconut coating.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds binding around boned hams. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads binding string through winding shaft and starts machine.
* Impales boned ham on spiked pilot.
* Pushes lever to engage winding shaft with pilot and steps on treadle to wind string spirally around ham.
* Holds ham between hands during winding to maintain its round shape.
* Stops machine, cuts and ties string, and removes bound ham.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines and equipment to wash, grind, mix, and bottle horseradish. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine to wash horseradish roots.
* Dumps washed roots on floor.
* Holds root against rotating wire brush to remove skin and blemishes.
* Places container under discharge outlet of grinder, starts machine manually, and feeds roots into grinder hopper.
* Turns valve to fill mixing machine with vinegar to specified level.
* Dumps ground horseradish into mixer and starts machine.
* Tilts mixer, or ladles out mixed horseradish into containers.
* Loads horseradish into hopper of filling machine, and starts machine.
* Holds jars under filling spout that deposits measured amount of horseradish in jar.
* Manually caps and labels jars.
* May dump horseradish roots into washing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines and equipment to wash, grind, mix, and bottle horseradish. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine to wash horseradish roots.
* Dumps washed roots on floor.
* Holds root against rotating wire brush to remove skin and blemishes.
* Places container under discharge outlet of grinder, starts machine manually, and feeds roots into grinder hopper.
* Turns valve to fill mixing machine with vinegar to specified level.
* Dumps ground horseradish into mixer and starts machine.
* Tilts mixer, or ladles out mixed horseradish into containers.
* Loads horseradish into hopper of filling machine, and starts machine.
* Holds jars under filling spout that deposits measured amount of horseradish in jar.
* Manually caps and labels jars.
* May dump horseradish roots into washing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists freezer operator to freeze and package ice cream, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours cans of fruit into sieve to separate juice.
* Places cans of chocolate coating into hot water vat, pushes barrel into mechanical heating unit, or adds specified amount of water to chocolate to increase its fluidity.
* Measures specified kinds and amounts of ingredients, such as ice cream mix, flavor, and color.
* Starts pump, or dumps ingredients into flavor-mix tanks to maintain continuous flow of mix into freezer.
* Adjusts guides or controls of automatic carton forming, filling, and wrapping machines.
* Shapes and feeds carton blanks, bottoms, and rims into carton forming machine.
* Holds bulk carton under filler head or places it on mechanical filling platform to fill carton with ice cream.
* Weighs carton.
* May mix ingredients, such as fruit juice, color, water, flavor, sugar, citric acid, and stabilizers to make mix for frozen ice confections.
* When tending flavor tanks, may be known as Flavor-Tank Tender.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists freezer operator to freeze and package ice cream, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours cans of fruit into sieve to separate juice.
* Places cans of chocolate coating into hot water vat, pushes barrel into mechanical heating unit, or adds specified amount of water to chocolate to increase its fluidity.
* Measures specified kinds and amounts of ingredients, such as ice cream mix, flavor, and color.
* Starts pump, or dumps ingredients into flavor-mix tanks to maintain continuous flow of mix into freezer.
* Adjusts guides or controls of automatic carton forming, filling, and wrapping machines.
* Shapes and feeds carton blanks, bottoms, and rims into carton forming machine.
* Holds bulk carton under filler head or places it on mechanical filling platform to fill carton with ice cream.
* Weighs carton.
* May mix ingredients, such as fruit juice, color, water, flavor, sugar, citric acid, and stabilizers to make mix for frozen ice confections.
* When tending flavor tanks, may be known as Flavor-Tank Tender.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
