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A professional who tends one or more machines that churn processed shortening and margarine to obtain specified viscosity of mixture. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes flow of stock in churner to avoid spilling.
* Adjusts valves to control and direct overflow into reprocessing tank.
* Starts machine to churn mixture, stops machine when specified viscosity is obtained, and opens valves and starts pump to transfer mixture.
* Adjusts governor to regulate speed of pump that transfers product into packaging machines.
* Collects and weighs sample of shortening at prescribed intervals to determine amount of nitrogen gas or air content in batch, using balance scale.
* Notifies votator-machine operator to add or delete nitrogen gas, according to weight standards.
* Adjusts valves to keep specified temperature in churner.
* Observes pressure and temperature gauges, and records readings.
* Cleans equipment and lines, using pressurized steam and nitrogen gas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends flour sifter and vats to mix fermenting, oxidizing, and shortening solutions, according to formula. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps flour from bins into sifting machine, using mechanical tipping apparatus or power chain hoist.
* Opens valve, meters specified amount of water into fermenting vats, and adjusts thermostat to heat water to specified temperature.
* Measures or weighs yeast food, milk solids, salt, sugar, and enrichment ingredients, according to formula, and dumps ingredients into vats.
* Starts vat agitators and adds yeast at specified period to ferment solution.
* Opens valves and starts pumps to run solution through heat regulator to dough-mixing machine.
* Measures specified amounts of oxidizing solution and liquid shortening and dumps them into holding tanks.
* Keeps record of time and temperature readings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends flour sifter and vats to mix fermenting, oxidizing, and shortening solutions, according to formula. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps flour from bins into sifting machine, using mechanical tipping apparatus or power chain hoist.
* Opens valve, meters specified amount of water into fermenting vats, and adjusts thermostat to heat water to specified temperature.
* Measures or weighs yeast food, milk solids, salt, sugar, and enrichment ingredients, according to formula, and dumps ingredients into vats.
* Starts vat agitators and adds yeast at specified period to ferment solution.
* Opens valves and starts pumps to run solution through heat regulator to dough-mixing machine.
* Measures specified amounts of oxidizing solution and liquid shortening and dumps them into holding tanks.
* Keeps record of time and temperature readings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mixing tanks and cooling equipment that blend unslacked lime with molasses for extraction of sugar and monosodium glutamate. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves and starts conveyor to fill cooler vat with specified amount of molasses and lime.
* Starts agitator and cooling system.
* Reads dials and gauges on panel control board to ascertain temperature, alkalinity, and density of mixture, and turns valves to obtain specified mixture.
* Opens valves and starts pump to pump mixture to filter station.
* Records data, such as volume of lime and molasses used, temperature, alkalinity, and density on report form.
* May be designated according to machine operated as Vortex Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mixing tanks to fortify sugar liquid extracted from beets with concentrated sugar liquids to obtain standard sugar liquor. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps and mixing tank agitators and opens valves to fill mixing tank with thin sugar juice and concentrated sugar liquid.
* Tests density of sugar liquor, using hydrometer.
* Pumps liquids into tank until specified density of liquor is obtained.
* Takes sample of liquor for laboratory analysis.
* Records operational data.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs and mixes seasonings and other ingredients to prepare spice mixes, according to formula, for use in flavoring canned food products. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs specified ingredients, such as spices, salt, and flour, using scales.
* Mixes ingredients, using mixing machine, spatula, or portable mixer.
* Fills containers to specified weight with mix for use in canning process.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mixing machine that blends spices. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs out each variety of spice required and pours or shovels them into hopper of machine.
* Starts machine to mix spices to specified consistency.
* Pulls lever to tilt machine and dump mix into container or storage bin.
* May sift spices before mixing, using mechanical sifter.
* May compare color of mixture with standard color chart to ensure color meets specifications.
* When mixing tea, may be designated Tea Blender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who twists round strips of dough to form into pretzels. Respnsibilities include:
* Picks piece of dough from conveyor and holds one end between thumb and forefinger of each hand.
* Flips dough into loop, and crosses and presses ends to outer circumference.
* Arranges pretzels on tray for baking.
* Records number of pretzels twisted.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to blend ingredients, and knead, extrude, and cut dough used to make noodles. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs specified die in press, using handtools.
* Adjusts press rollers to regulate thickness of dough, using micrometer and handtool.
* Dumps premeasured quantity of eggs into tub, sets meter, and turns spigot to admit prescribed amount of water.
* Starts beater to mix eggs and water for specified time.
* Starts pumps to transfer mixture to mixing unit of press.
* Opens hopper to admit flour into mixing unit and starts press to process mixture.
* Turns screw to set speed of knives to cut product to specified length.
* Patrols drying chambers and observes temperature and humidity readings recorded on charts for variation in drying procedure.
* Reports chart deviations to production manager.
* Records type of product, date, and time of entry and discharge of product from drying chambers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends minglers that mix raw sugar and affination (syrup) to prepare raw magma of specified density. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts mingler and signals melt-house drag operator, using bell, to start flow of sugar to minglers.
* Turns valve to start flow of affination into minglers.
* Regulates speed of mingler and controls flow of affination to maintain magma at specified density and level in receiving tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
