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A professional who tends conveyor-type casting machine that pumps process cheese into molds to form slices of specified size and weight. Respnsibilities include:
* Places paper interleaves in dispenser and presses button to signal for cheese to be dropped into hopper.
* Starts machine that automatically pumps measured amounts of cheese onto interleaves in trays, and spreads cheese into slices of specified size.
* Observes weight-indicator light and moves lever to regulate amount of cheese deposited in tray.
* Straightens interleaves, replaces clogged dispenser, or feeder needle, scrapes cheese from tamper and vacuum openings in tray, and removes malformed slices.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine to season potato chips, corn chips, or similar food products. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps food products into drum of machine and starts machine that rotates drum.
* Scoops seasoning from barrel, using measuring cup, and sifts seasoning onto food product in drum.
* Stops machine after specified time and tilts drum to dump material into container, onto conveyor, or into hopper of bagging machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends five-position mixing machine to mix unleavened dough ingredients, such as flour, eggs, salt, and water in production of matzoh products. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes mixing pot onto roller platform and positions pot under automatic filling and weighing devices.
* Flips switch and turns controls to fill mixing pot with dough ingredients.
* Observes scale indicators to determine when specified amounts of ingredients have been added.
* Dumps premeasured pail of condiments into mixing pot.
* Pushes pot from roller platform onto platform of mixing machine.
* Depresses button to move platform to each of five mixing positions and to simultaneously agitate mixing fork in mixing pot.
* Depresses foot pedal to uncradle mixing pot from final position, lifts and pulls pot onto roller platform, and pushes pot onto elevator for conveying to dough-dumping station.
* Observes machine and auxiliary automatic pot-washing system, and stops machine and notifies supervisor when malfunctions occur.
* Cleans mixer cover, using brush and airhose, and unscrews mixing fork from spindle for cleaning by other worker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends numerically controlled equipment that automatically mixes oil, water, and mixture of grain products to make dough used in production of snack foods. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads chart to determine time intervals and sequence for adding oil and water and length of mixing cycle.
* Pulls knobs to activate control panel and observes lights and dials to verify that panel is functioning.
* Inspects sections of mixing equipment, such as agitator blades, drum of mixer, and feed hopper to verify that equipment is clean.
* Adds emulsifier and contents of oil drum into reservoir prior to mixing process, using air-powered pump.
* Selects and pushes wheeled container of preweighed mixture of grain products or dough scrap into automatic locking device of mixer elevator.
* Presses specified buttons on control panel to purge air from oil and water lines, open drum door of mixer, raise and dump contents of container into mixer, and activate mixer.
* Observes digital timer and presses buttons at specified intervals to add predetermined amounts of oil and water, stop mixing process, and dispense dough onto conveyor for further processing.
* Observes oil and water pipes during mixing process to ensure that oil and water are flowing into mixer.
* Feels dough on conveyor to detect defects, such as excessively dry, moist, or lumpy dough.
* Scoops cup of dough from initial batch of mix for quality assurance testing.
* Notifies supervisor of dough not meeting mixing standards and of equipment malfunction.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines and equipment that automatically mix ingredients to make straight and sponge (yeast) doughs according to formula. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves controls and turns valves to adjust metering devices that weigh, measure, sift, and convey water, flour, and shortening into mixer, and that measure and dump yeast, vitamins, yeast food, sugar, salt, and other ingredients into mixing machine.
* Turns knobs or dials to set mixing cycle time and maintain temperature of dough.
* Starts machine.
* Feels dough for desired consistency.
* Positions wheeled dough trough in front of mixer, opens mixer door, and starts mixer to rotate blades and dumps dough into trough.
* Pushes troughs of sponge dough into room to ferment for specified time.
* Dumps raised sponge dough into mixer, using hoist, and adds ingredients to complete mixture.
* Records number of batches mixed.
* May weigh and measure ingredients which are manually fed into mixer.
* May dump all ingredients into mixer by hand.
* May be designated according to type of dough mixed as Bread-Dough Mixer; Cookie Mixer; Dog-Food Dough Mixer; Doughnut-Dough Mixer; Pastry Mixer; Pie-Crust Mixer.
* May be designated. Respnsibilities include:
* Cracker-Dough Mixer; Pretzel-Dough Mixer; Sweet-Dough Mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds automatic rolling machine that forms pliable candy into shapes, such as balls or disks. Respnsibilities include:
* Applies colored candy strips onto outside of candy roll to form stripes.
* Places bulk candy on heated canvas belt.
* Rolls candy into ropelike shape.
* Starts machine.
* Feeds rolled candy into machine that cuts, rolls, cools, and drops shaped candy onto conveyor leading to wrapping department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds freshly baked wafers into machine that forms dessert cups. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions and holds wafer over male die.
* Withdraws hand as female die forces wafer over male die to form dessert cup.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists feed mixer to prepare stock and poultry feed. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps sacks of wheat, corn, or other ingredients into hopper of mixing machine.
* Stirs ingredients in hopper, using paddle to facilitate flow into mixer.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fills hopper of blending machine with flour to assist flour blender. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves sacks of flour from storeroom to blending machine, using handtruck, forklift, or electric hoist.
* Cuts sacks open and dumps contents into hopper of machine, or turns hand screws or moves levers to adjust gate openings of overhead storage bins to release specified amounts of flour into blender hopper.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs specified amounts of glucose and flavoring syrup for use in making chewing gum. Respnsibilities include:
* Places container on wheeled scale and positions container under glucose tap.
* Fills container with specified weight of glucose.
* Adds syrup to glucose until prescribed weight of combined ingredients is reached.
* Pours ingredients into mixing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
