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A professional who tends hydrating and drying equipment to make instant dairy products, using either of following methods. Respnsibilities include: * (1) Turns valves, starts fans, and observes thermometers and gauges to heat drying chamber to specified temperature and supply steam to hydrating jets. * Starts conveyors and shaker screen. * Turns dial to transfer powder from feeder hopper through steam spray, drying chamber, and vibrating screen into storage hopper. * Turns steam valves and feeder dial to adjust temperature or powder flow to maintain specified moisture content. * (2) Starts pumps, turns valves, and observes meter to spray water into hydrator at specified rate. * Starts blower to push powder from storage hopper, through water spray, and onto conveyor leading to dryer and sizing rolls. * Turns valve and observes thermometer to maintain specified temperature in dryer. * Positions sizing rolls on conveyor, using wrench, to crumble dried powder to specified size. * Examines and feels powder for moisture and charring.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends conveyor line enclosed in series of circular chambers to cook canned milk to sterilize and change viscosity and color of milk. Respnsibilities include: * Turns steam, water, and hot air valves and observes gauges to adjust temperature of heating, cooking, cooling, and drying chambers. * Observes panel lights for machine failure and stops conveyor to remove jammed cans. * Observes filled sealed cans moving through chambers and removes dented cans or sample test cans. * Opens sample can and dips spoon into sterilized milk to observe grain (texture), viscosity, and color. * May alter cooking temperature or add measured amount of calcium or phosphate to milk batch to obtain specified grain and viscosity.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends driers that remove moisture from leaf and processed tobacco. Respnsibilities include: * Starts driers (rotating drums) and turns valves to admit steam to heat coils of driers or opens valves on gas burners and sets thermostat. * Periodically feels tobacco to determine dryness and regulates heat to dry tobacco within specified limits. * May record readings of humidigraphs and thermometers on chart. * May feed tobacco into drier. * May be designated according to types of tobacco dried as Snuff Drier; Tobacco-Stem-Drier Operator. * May tend driers that impart distinctive flavor (toast) to tobacco and be designated Toaster Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends driers that remove moisture from leaf and processed tobacco. Respnsibilities include: * Starts driers (rotating drums) and turns valves to admit steam to heat coils of driers or opens valves on gas burners and sets thermostat. * Periodically feels tobacco to determine dryness and regulates heat to dry tobacco within specified limits. * May record readings of humidigraphs and thermometers on chart. * May feed tobacco into drier. * May be designated according to types of tobacco dried as Snuff Drier; Tobacco-Stem-Drier Operator. * May tend driers that impart distinctive flavor (toast) to tobacco and be designated Toaster Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends vacuum drier system to dehydrate prebleached and preevaporated fruit in evaporating plant. Respnsibilities include: * Loads fruit-filled trays onto drier shelves and closes and seals doors. * Turns switches and dials to start heater and set temperature and timing for preheating system's circulating water. * Turns switches and dials in prescribed sequence to activate timer, water pumps, and condenser and to put system on automatic cycle. * Turns hand-valve to break vacuum at end of cycle, sets timer, and allows fruit to cool. * Removes filled trays from drier and turns and pulls trays across bin-mounted scraper to remove dehydrated fruit. * Listens for sounds that indicate malfunctions, and notifies supervisor of malfunctions that fail to respond to specified corrective actions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends tanks used to pasteurize fermented wine. Respnsibilities include: * Meters out specified quantities of wine into tanks and turns steam valves to admit heat. * Observes thermometer readings and gauges of tanks to ensure heating of wine at required temperature for specified time to effect pasteurization. * Starts pumps to transfer wine from pasteurizing tanks to storage tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists coffee roaster to roast green coffee beans. Respnsibilities include: * Picks over green coffee, discarding black and dead coffee beans, to prepare coffee for roasting. * May weigh and pack ground coffee. * Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dries fish, such as salmon, cod, herring, or sardines. Respnsibilities include: * Hangs fish on racks or poles, or places them in trays. * Sets racks, poles, or trays in drying room or oven.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who spreads germinated barley or green hops on kiln floor to dry. Respnsibilities include: * Holds and directs swing chute to discharge and spread barley or hops evenly over floor. * Levels barley or hops, using fork. * Loosens lock bolts to tip holding-kiln floor screens and drop barley or hops onto next drying floor or into storage hopper or pushes product into lower bin, using scraper. * May clean and scrub malthouse floors.
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A professional who moves racks of food packages into and out of freezing room. Respnsibilities include: * Wheels portable racks filled with food packages and fresh meat into freezing room for freezing. * Records identifying data, such as brand name, package sizes, and time of entry in freezing room. * Feels packages after specified time to test solidity of freeze. * Notifies supervisor when specified quotas are filled, and when temperature fluctuates, or outside air leaks into freezing compartments. * Pulls racks from freezing room with power winch when wheels are frozen.
Industry:Professional careers