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A professional who prepares and cans mushroom steak sauce, using mixing, filling, and canning machines. Respnsibilities include: * Weighs ingredients, such as flour, chicken fat, starch, and seasoning, and dumps them into agitator partly filled with water. * Closes kettle and cooks to proper consistency. * Adds sliced mushrooms and continues cooking for specified time. * Opens valve to permit flow of sauce to filling machine and starts automatic can filler and canning machines. * Keeps hopper supplied with lids.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to transfer glucose from refinery to cooling equipment and storage tanks or to load tank cars and drums preparatory to shipment. Respnsibilities include: * Starts vat agitator, and turns valves to admit water to cooling coils and transfer glucose from refinery to cooling vat. * Starts pump to transfer cooled glucose to storage tank or tank cars. * Removes bung cap of drum and examines interior for cleanliness. * Positions drum on rack and turns spigot to fill drum with glucose. * Screws bung cap to seal filled drums, using wrench. * Weighs drums before and after filling, and stencils tare, gross, and net weight on drums. * Obtains sample of glucose from vat for laboratory analysis.
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A professional who tends equipment that mixes diatomaceous earth, milk of lime, and acid with liquors and syrups to form slurry for filtration process. Respnsibilities include: * Turns valves to regulate flow of slurries through series of blow-up tanks, and to maintain temperature, content level, and air agitation in tanks. * Adds milk of lime or phosphoric acid to slurry to obtain specified alkalinity. * Tests slurries for density, using refractometer, and adds liquor or diatomaceous earth to maintain specified density. * Tests samples of slurries to ascertain that specified purification is occurring. * Records operating data on forms or blackboard. * Prepares phosphoric acid solutions of specified concentration for use in filtration process. * Cleans blocked lines and blow-ups.
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A professional who tends equipment that extrudes and dries compressed yeast to make bakers' active dry yeast. Respnsibilities include: * Dumps compressed yeast into hopper of extruding machine. * Observes temperature indicator and moisture gauges on drier, and sets controls to maintain prescribed temperature and humidity in drier. * Starts extruder that forms yeast into noodles and deposits them onto conveyor belt that carries yeast noodles through drier. * Collects yeast samples from conveyor at specified locations in drier, submits samples to laboratory for analysis, and adjusts temperature and humidity of drier on basis of laboratory report. * Connects mill to hopper outlet to grind dried yeast to specified fineness. * Opens outlet of drier or mill hopper to fill containers. * Weighs containers and records weight. * Transfers containers to storage, using lift truck.
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A professional who tends machine that mashes peas and registers force required to crush them to ascertain hardness (maturity) and grades peas. Respnsibilities include: * Fills measured pail with pea sample and weighs sample, using scale. * Washes and cleans sample to remove debris, such as thistles and weeds, reweighs sample, and calculates percentage of waste per load of peas based on sample. * Pours pea sample into top of size grader and counts number of peas in each grade level to calculate percentage of each grade of pea in crop. * Dumps cleaned peas on grid of machine and closes cover. * Starts motor to rotate disks of grid which mash peas and simultaneously registers force required on dial. * Repeats test on second sample from same pan and records dial readings. * Records average force required to mash peas, which determines quality of product. * Inserts slip showing quality into container.
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A professional who tends equipment to weigh oils and other ingredients used in making margarine or shortening, following standard formulas. Respnsibilities include: * Starts pump, and turns valve to admit ingredients into scale tank until specified weight has been reached. * Positions weights on scale bar to weigh additives or smaller batches of ingredients. * Records weights of ingredients. * Turns valves to empty weighed ingredients from scale tanks into mixing vat for blending. * May turn valve to admit air into scale tanks to agitate and mix ingredients.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to weigh oils and other ingredients used in making margarine or shortening, following standard formulas. Respnsibilities include: * Starts pump, and turns valve to admit ingredients into scale tank until specified weight has been reached. * Positions weights on scale bar to weigh additives or smaller batches of ingredients. * Records weights of ingredients. * Turns valves to empty weighed ingredients from scale tanks into mixing vat for blending. * May turn valve to admit air into scale tanks to agitate and mix ingredients.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties concerned with processing nuts. Respnsibilities include: * Stirs nuts being boiled in water to soften shells preparatory to cracking, using paddle. * Dumps softened nuts into hoppers or onto conveyors leading to cracking and packing machines. * Changes nut-cracking barrels on machines, using handtools. * Mixes, weighs, and pours nuts into containers. * Cleans working areas, machines, and equipment. * Moves materials, supplies, and nuts between work areas, using dollies and handtrucks. * May be concerned with specific phase of nut processing and be designated Nut-Roaster Helper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties concerned with processing nuts. Respnsibilities include: * Stirs nuts being boiled in water to soften shells preparatory to cracking, using paddle. * Dumps softened nuts into hoppers or onto conveyors leading to cracking and packing machines. * Changes nut-cracking barrels on machines, using handtools. * Mixes, weighs, and pours nuts into containers. * Cleans working areas, machines, and equipment. * Moves materials, supplies, and nuts between work areas, using dollies and handtrucks. * May be concerned with specific phase of nut processing and be designated Nut-Roaster Helper.
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A professional who tests tobacco samples from various stages of processing to determine conformance to quality standards. Respnsibilities include: * Obtains tobacco samples from various processing areas to ensure representative sampling. * Conducts tests to determine characteristics of tobacco batch, such as stem length, percentage of lamina, stem, and foreign matter content, using scales, laboratory equipment, and calculator.
Industry:Professional careers