- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who controls equipment to make grades of butter by either of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Butter churn method:
** Connects sanitary pipe between cream storage vat and churn.
** Starts pump to convey sterile solution through equipment and to admit measured amount of pasteurized cream into churn, and starts churn.
** Observes separation of buttermilk from butter and pumps buttermilk from churn.
** Opens churn and sprays butter with chlorinated water to remove residue buttermilk.
** Compares butter with color chart and adds coloring to meet specifications.
** Tests butter for moisture, salt content, and consistency, using testing apparatus, and achieves specified consistency by adding or removing water.
** Examines, smells, and tastes butter to grade it according to prescribed standard.
* (2) Butter chilling method:
** Pasteurizes and separates cream to obtain butter oil, and tests butter oil in standardizing vat for butter fat, moisture, salt content, and acidity, using testing apparatus.
** Adds water, alkali, and coloring to butter oil to achieve specified grade, and starts agitator to mix ingredients.
** Turns valves and observes gauges to regulate temperature and flow of water, refrigerant, and butter oil through chilling vat.
** Smells, tastes, and feels sample to grade butter emerging from chilling vat.
** May be designated according to equipment operated as Butter-Chilling Equipment Operator; Butter Churner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment that produces dry starch products from raw starch, and tests product for adherence to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps bags of chemicals into mixing tanks, and turns valves to admit fluids to prepare slurries for treating raw starch.
* Regulates material flow, and starts and controls pumps, heaters, agitators, shakers, filters, driers, and related equipment, following standard procedures.
* Monitors gauges and recording instruments to ensure standard operating conditions.
* Directs other workers in operating equipment in event of malfunction.
* Obtains samples of product at various stages of process to test for viscosity, acidity, and specific gravity, using viscometer, pH meter, and hydrometer.
* Records instrument readings and other data on daily log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines plain or filter-tipped cigarettes or filters to ensure that quality of product conforms to standards. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects cigarettes or filters produced to detect imperfections, such as loose ends, stems, stemholes, defective glue lines, and defectively attached filters.
* Examines cigarettes, attached filters, and filters rejected by cigarette-making-machine catcher and cigarette inspector and discards inferior products.
* Notifies cigarette-making-machine operator of deviations from standards.
* Records number of cigarettes found with defects and compiles summary production sheets.
* Verifies and totals figures posted by cigarette inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines hogsheads and bales of tobacco after ordering process to determine whether temperature and quality of tobacco conform to standards. Respnsibilities include:
* Places thermometer in tobacco and records temperature of each lot.
* Inspects tobacco for damage.
* Removes damaged tobacco, weighs, and records amount damaged.
* Notifies supervisor when temperature or condition of tobacco does not meet standards.
* Verifies weight of hogsheads and bales against checksheet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who grades unhulled rice visually as it is unloaded from freight cars or trucks, and directs workers in storage of rice according to grade. Respnsibilities include:
* Obtains samples from each carload or truckload, using probe.
* Examines samples and determines grade of each load according to amount of damaged grains and grass seed content.
* Directs workers in conveying rice to storage bins to ensure that each grade is stored separately.
* Records amount and grade of rice received.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects operating condition of machinery and equipment used in manufacture of stock feed, starch, sugar, and liquid sugar products to detect potential sources for loss of product. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines valves, pipe connections, conveyors, pumps, and equipment assemblies for potential malfunction and cause of leakage, spillage, overflow, and excessive dusting.
* Takes samples from process streams, such as wash water and waste disposal lines, to laboratory for test of product content.
* Prepares periodic reports of inspection findings.
* Participates in special studies, such as grain moisture and sewer sampling surveys, reviews new sampling methods and procedures, and makes suggestions to improve yield loss inspection procedures.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects bagging, storage, and shipping facilities for conformance to company sanitation and safety standards in beet sugar refinery. Respnsibilities include:
* Monitors indicator lights and weighs randomly selected sugar bags from packaging line conveyor to verify accuracy of automatic weighing equipment.
* Pulls lever to adjust fill rate of equipment when sample bags are over or under specified weight.
* Inspects boxcars for cleanliness and to ascertain valves and hatches are closed and sealed.
* Obtains sugar samples from bulk car for laboratory analysis, using probe.
* Inspects warehouse areas to detect unsafe or unsanitary conditions, such as lubricants on walkways and cracks in storage bins.
* Informs designated person of conditions requiring immediate repair, such as unsanitary condition of boxcars and warehouse areas.
* Completes reports that indicate condition of boxcars, warehouse area, and incoming shipments of brown sugar and starch.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compounds natural or synthetic flavorings from liquid and solid ingredients, according to formula. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects prescribed ingredients and measures or weighs ingredients, using English or metric measures and balance scales.
* Determines mixing sequence, in kettles, placed on floor scales, or in weigh tanks, based on knowledge of temperature effects, and solubility and miscibility properties of specific ingredients.
* Stirs mixture with paddle or uses agitator.
* Homogenizes material to prevent separation of substances, using homogenizing device.
* Maintains record of batches prepared.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates continuous churn to produce butter of specified grade and quality, and performs quality control tests. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts agitator of salt injector and fills tank of injector with salt solution.
* Turns valve control and starts pump to move cream from storage tank to churn.
* Presses switches to start beater and extruders of churn, and adjusts controls while monitoring gauge and ammeter to regulate churn speed.
* Connects salt injector tube to extruder of churn and starts salt injector pump.
* Raises or lowers nozzle to adjust height of buttermilk drainpipe to control level of buttermilk in extruder, using wrenches.
* Observes butter granules dropping from beater section to ensure that beater is operating efficiently.
* Removes sample of butter from discharge of churn and performs standardized tests for moisture, butterfat, and color content.
* Tastes butter to detect undesirable flavors and to ensure required salt level.
* Rubs sample of butter between thumb and finger to determine if texture meets specifications.
* Turns control knobs to adjust speed of beater, speed of salt pump, height of buttermilk discharge pipe, or adds vegetable color to salt solution to ensure butter meets specifications.
* Observes and listens to churn to detect possible malfunctions, such as leaks or plugging, and reports malfunctions or undesirable taste to supervisor.
* Mixes salt and water, according to formula, to maintain stock of solution.
* Records production and test data on record sheet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates any of following machines and equipment to relieve regular operators engaged in processing cocoa beans into chocolate liquor and in producing cocoa powder and sweet chocolate, according to formula. Respnsibilities include:
* Controls roaster that roasts cocoa beans to develop specified color and flavor and reduces moisture content of beans.
* Tends mill to grind nibs (cracked cocoa beans) into liquid chocolate of specified fineness.
* Tends hydraulic press to extract cocoa butter from chocolate liquor, and operates cocoa room machinery and equipment to grind and pulverize cocoa cakes into cocoa powder.
* Mixes ingredients, such as chocolate liquor, sugar, and powdered milk to make sweet chocolate.
* Operates refining machine to grind chocolate paste to specified consistency.
* Operates tempering equipment to control temperature of chocolate in cooling process before molding.
* May tend molding machines, pressure cookers, and dryers.
* May assist in supervising and training production line workers.
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