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A professional who tends machine that automatically dispenses brine, oil, salt, or syrup into containers of food products prior to lidding or capping. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and turns valves to allow flow of solution.
* Feeds or guides containers onto conveyor that carries containers under dispensing nozzles.
* Observes filling operation and adjusts flow of solution or material to optimum volume.
* Removes broken jars from conveyor and deposits jars in waste receptacles.
* May fill machine reservoirs with dry salt, oil, brine, or sugar solution as required.
* May be designated according to solution used as Briner, Machine; Oil Dispenser; Syruper, Machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically dispenses brine, oil, salt, or syrup into containers of food products prior to lidding or capping. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and turns valves to allow flow of solution.
* Feeds or guides containers onto conveyor that carries containers under dispensing nozzles.
* Observes filling operation and adjusts flow of solution or material to optimum volume.
* Removes broken jars from conveyor and deposits jars in waste receptacles.
* May fill machine reservoirs with dry salt, oil, brine, or sugar solution as required.
* May be designated according to solution used as Briner, Machine; Oil Dispenser; Syruper, Machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that automatically weighs specified amount of raw sugar-cane juice to fill processing tanks. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves to admit juice and lime solution.
* Adds chemicals to solution to remove impurities.
* Takes samples of juice for laboratory analysis.
* Washes tanks, using water hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment, such as cooking tanks, expellers or presses, driers, grinders, auxiliary pumps, and conveyors, to render and process offal for use as plant and animal foods, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves and starts pumps and conveyors to move materials through rendering process.
* Observes temperature gauges and rate of flow and condition of materials passing through cookers, expellers, and grinders, and adjusts valves and rate of flow.
* Shovels or dumps guts, bones, and other inedible or condemned parts of slaughtered animals into chute leading to grinder and cooking tanks.
* Drains oil from surface of cooked offal and opens tank discharge to drop cooked material into trough leading to expellers.
* Starts grinding and screening equipment to pulverize and sift tankage, cracklings, and cooked blood for sacking.
* Hangs sack on discharge hopper of screening equipment and opens gate to discharge specified amount of material into sack.
* Ties or sews mouth of sack.
* May be known according to specific work performed as Cooker And Presser; Crackling-Press Operator; Oil-Expeller; Press Operator; Tallow Pumper; Tankage-Grinder Operator; Tank Charger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who relieves workers on fresh-work cigar machine. Respnsibilities include:
* Feeds filler tobacco to machine.
* Tends unit of machine that cuts and feeds binder leaves.
* Tends unit that cuts and feeds wrappers.
* Inspects finished cigars.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that forms and wraps ice cream sandwiches. Respnsibilities include:
* Attaches tube lines from freezer machine to ice cream forming head, using wrench.
* Assembles dispenser trays, wafer extruders, sandwich pusher, paper tucker, and elevator table to form sandwich of specified size.
* Threads roll of wrapping paper from spindle through guide rolls to wrapping box.
* Turns tension screws to obtain desired size wrapper.
* Starts machine and turns valve to start flow of ice cream from freezer through forming head past wafer extruders.
* Observes formed ice cream ribbon as it is automatically enclosed with wafers, cut at specified intervals, and wrapped.
* Turns valve and stops machine to remove jammed or defectively formed and wrapped sandwiches.
* Turns handwheel or presses jogging button to alter position of elevator table or wrapping paper to correct jam.
* May replace worn electrical or mechanical parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends washing, blanching, steaming, brining, peeling, or shucking machine that prepares shellfish for canning, freezing, or fresh packing. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves to admit water, steam, or air under pressure into machine vats, and adds specified quantities of additives, such as salt or food coloring.
* Lowers baskets of shellfish into vats by hand or hoist, or pushes cars of shellfish into steamer chamber.
* Closes door of steamer chamber, clamps fasteners over edges of door, and turns wing nuts to secure door.
* Starts conveyors that move product through machines or into weighing carts.
* May turn screws to adjust tension of peeler, using wrench.
* May tend machines that slice, grind, and tenderize clam meat.
* May be designated according to machine tended as Clam-Shucking-Machine Tender; Shrimp-Peeling-Machine Tender; or by shellfish processed as Clam Steamer; Crab Steamer; Oyster Washer; Shrimp Blancher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that fumigates incoming shipments of spices to kill insects. Respnsibilities include:
* Stacks sacks, boxes, and cartons of spices in fumigating tank; or moves loaded pallet into fumigating room, using handtruck.
* Starts exhaust pump or opens valve on carbon dioxide pressure cylinder to remove or force air from fumigating tank or room.
* Pours specified quantities of liquid fumigants, such as ethylene oxide, into container in fumigating tank; or opens valve on pressure cylinder to admit specified amounts of gaseous fumigant into tank or room.
* Opens ventilating valves and starts vacuum pump or blower to remove fumigants after specified time.
* Removes spices from fumigating tank or room.
* May be required to hold fumigator's license issued by local health department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that spreads tobacco evenly onto conveyor belt.
* Places saratoga filled with tobacco on hydraulic lift and starts machine.
* Pulls lever to hoist saratoga and dump tobacco into hopper of machine where prong-studded shaft fluffs tobacco and spreads tobacco evenly onto conveyor belt.
* Cleans tobacco from prongs of shaft.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that spreads tobacco evenly onto conveyor belt.
* Places saratoga filled with tobacco on hydraulic lift and starts machine.
* Pulls lever to hoist saratoga and dump tobacco into hopper of machine where prong-studded shaft fluffs tobacco and spreads tobacco evenly onto conveyor belt.
* Cleans tobacco from prongs of shaft.
Industry:Professional careers
