- Industri: Government; Labor
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A professional who rearranges containers of fruit stacked in tiers in ripening room to expose all fruit equally to room temperature during ripening period.
* May truck fruit in and out of ripening room.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who moistens hands of tobacco wrapper leaves with water, using spraygun, to make leaves pliable for processing.
* Feels leaves to determine whether moisture content is within prescribed limits.
* Weighs specific amounts of leaves and places leaves in containers for untier.
* Records amounts of wrapper and binder leaves used in making cigars.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who moistens hands of tobacco wrapper leaves with water, using spraygun, to make leaves pliable for processing.
* Feels leaves to determine whether moisture content is within prescribed limits.
* Weighs specific amounts of leaves and places leaves in containers for untier.
* Records amounts of wrapper and binder leaves used in making cigars.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks concerned with cannery processing of fish roe. Respnsibilities include:
* Presses headless fish against work surface to ascertain sex of fish by presence or absence of milt.
* Inserts hand into body cavity of female fish, feels along ventral area of body to locate vent, and cups hand to remove viscera and egg skeins (membrane-enclosed ovaries, tissue, and fish roe).
* Separates viscera and organs from egg skeins by hand.
* Discards viscera and organs and places egg skeins in baskets for weighing.
* Weighs baskets containing egg skeins, using scales, and records totals on tally sheets.
* Dumps basket of egg skeins on work surface, and examines egg skeins for imperfections, such as blood saturation, immature eggs, and torn membranes.
* Separates egg skeins, according to size and species of fish.
* Places acceptable egg skeins in containers for reweighing.
* Rinses containers of egg skeins with water, using water hose, and dips containers in mild saline solution to rinse egg skeins prior to brining.
* Works under direction of fish roe technician to fill brining tanks, dump egg skeins into tanks, remove processed egg skeins, and pack egg skeins for shipment, following prescribed procedures.
* May slit underside of fish before removing egg skeins, using knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in sorting and packing nuts, and inspects sampling of nuts to estimate percentage that will be marketable from each delivery. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects random sample of nuts from each delivery, places sample in containers, and attaches identification tag to container.
* Places nuts in drier to remove specified percentage of moisture.
* Weighs nuts before and after drying and records weight lost.
* Places nuts on perforated plate through which nuts pass into separate containers, according to size.
* Cracks nuts and examines them for blanks, worms, and shriveled centers.
* Segregates salable nuts, weighs nuts, and records percentage of marketable products.
* May explain procedures for estimating percentage of marketable products to growers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in regenerating bone-char, charcoal, and diatomaceous earth used as filtering media for sugar liquor. Respnsibilities include:
* Orders emptying of filters, and transferring of char between char-house by char puller and other workers.
* Directs kiln operator in maintaining specified temperature in kiln and flow-rate of material through kiln.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in filling cans, sucking cores, and pulling and dumping cans in ice plant.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates one or more roasters to remove moisture and impart specified color and flavor to cocoa beans. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts thermostat and fuel valve to heat roasters to specified temperature.
* Observes temperature chart to ascertain heat pattern of roaster.
* Pulls handle to open hopper and drop beans into roaster.
* Starts roaster cylinder rotating to roast beans evenly.
* Examines sample of beans for color, dryness, or brittleness after specified roasting cycle, and tastes bean to judge if flavor conforms to standard.
* Adjusts roaster flame and dampers to control circulation of hot air on basis of evaluation of sample.
* Pulls handle when desired degree of roasting is reached to discharge beans onto conveyor that transfers beans to cracking and fanning machine.
* Records amounts of beans roasted.
* May tend bean-cleaning machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment that dries macaroni according to laboratory specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns dials and opens steam valves on panelboard to regulate temperature, humidity, and drying time in preliminary, secondary, and final drying chambers, according to outside atmospheric conditions, specific product requirements, and drying stage.
* Enters chambers and feels macaroni to determine if product is drying according to specifications, relying upon knowledge and experience.
* Opens chamber hatch to admit cold air and adjusts controls to change drying speed at particular drying stages to comply with laboratory recommendation or to meet changing atmospheric conditions.
* Regulates temperature and humidity in pressroom to maintain required atmospheric conditions.
* Evaluates quality of dried macaroni on basis of color.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates such equipment as continuous roaster, cracker and fanner, dryer, and grinder, to process cocoa beans to make chocolate liquor. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns gas valves and electric switches to start and heat roaster.
* Sets thermostat and rheostat to control temperature of roaster and speed of rotation.
* Starts conveyor to transfer specified type and amount of beans from storage to roaster.
* Examines sample of beans for color, tastes beans for flavor, and crumbles beans to determine moisture content.
* Adjusts temperature and speed of roaster in accordance with findings.
* Starts cracking and fanning machine to break and remove husks from roasted cocoa beans.
* Observes nibs (cracked roasted cocoa beans) and shells to evaluate husking process, and adjusts machine accordingly.
* Opens slide gate on fanner to convey nibs scheduled for dutch processing.
* Starts agitator to mix beans in treating tank for specified time.
* Opens tank gate to release beans for conveying to dryer.
* Starts gas-fired dryer, sets rheostat, and feels beans for dryness.
* Starts conveyor to move dried beans to roaster for roasting or to grinding machine.
* Turns valve to pump chocolate liquor to storage tanks.
* Patrols area to observe coordination of machine and equipment to ensure orderly flow of material at specified rates.
Industry:Professional careers
