- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who tends soft-work cigar machine (turret machine) that rolls wrapper tobacco leaves around bunches to make cigars. Respnsibilities include:
* Lays wrapper leaf on die of machine and presses treadle to lower knife that cuts leaf and to activate mechanism that draws cut leaf into machine and rolls leaf around bunch.
* Inspects finished cigars for defects as cigars emerge from machine.
* Pastes portions of leaf over holes or tears in wrappers.
* Discards defective cigars that cannot be repaired.
* Works in conjunction with bunch maker, machine who supplies bunches to machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects packaged tobacco products or jars of baby food to detect foreign matter, using x-ray equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Activates equipment and conveyor.
* Observes shadows cast on fluorescent screen by package or jar passing in front of x ray which indicates presence of foreign matter, such as sticks, stems, metal, or dirt.
* Removes defective packages or jars.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that washes, pasteurizes, and cools yeast cream (concentrated yeast suspension) used in manufacture of baker's yeast and yeast food. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valve to pump yeast cream into tank, and adds water to yeast cream to remove traces of wort adhering to yeast cells.
* Pumps yeast cream and wash water to storage tank preparatory to centrifugal separation.
* Turns valves to admit steam into jacket of pasteurizer and circulate brine through cooling coils of cooler.
* Pumps yeast cream, that has been washed and separated from wash water, to pasteurizer and through cooling equipment to storage tank.
* Tests cream for acidity, using pH meter, and adds necessary chemicals to attain required acidity level.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that automatically wash, fill, and seal cans in cannery. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes buttons and levers on control panel to start machines and monitors machine operations to verify that can washer, can food and liquid filler, can sealer, and conveyor mechanisms function in prescribed sequence.
* Observes cans leaving machines to detect defects, such as overfilled cans or misaligned lids.
* Pushes buttons to stop machines when machines malfunction, and notifies maintenance mechanic of detected defects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that automatically encase tobacco filler in layers of homogenized leaf tobacco to form cigars. Respnsibilities include:
* Places rolls of homogenized leaf on spindles and guides leaf through tension guides and rollers of machine.
* Starts machine that automatically wraps filler with binder, mouth end of cigar with reinforcing band, and bunch with wrapper leaf to form cigar.
* Observes machine operation to detect malfunctions.
* Turns setscrews to adjust feed rate, and stops and clears machine when jam-up occurs.
* Examines cigars discharged from machine for defects, such as holes, tears, and insufficient filler, and for conformity to size specifications.
* Loads inspected cigars into storage containers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that processes soybeans to make soymilk, tofu, tempeh, and related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours specified quantity of presoaked soybeans into mill hopper and depresses button to start grinding of beans and flow of bean mash into steam-jacketed cooker.
* Adds specified amount of water to mash and stirs mash to prevent burns and boilovers, using paddle.
* Sprays cooker exterior with water to maintain temperature in acceptable range.
* At end of prescribed time, turns valve to allow mash to flow into filter-lined hydraulic press tub.
* Depresses controls to actuate press that expresses soymilk from mash and pumps milk into vats.
* Heats and injects additives into soymilk to form curd, using syringe, skims off and discards surface residue, using ladle, and places weights on curd to express whey from curd to form tofu.
* Adds flavorings and stabilizers to soymilk and cooks and freezes mix, using steam cooker and freezing machine, to make soy ice cream.
* Cooks whole soybeans, mixes tempeh mold with cooked rice to make tempeh starter, and mixes incubated starter with cooked soybeans to form tempeh.
* Fills packaging containers with product, following prescribed procedures.
* May blend and cook bean mash or processed soy products with other ingredients to prepare ready-to-eat packaged foods.
* May be designated according to product prepared as Soyfreeze Operator; Tempeh Maker; Tofu Maker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who hangs bundles of tobacco on sticks moving on chain conveyor to redrying machine. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes bundles from table and observes color shade.
* Spreads leaves of bundle to form opening and hangs bundle on stick conveying bundles of similar color shade.
* May shake bundles that have been packed in hogsheads to loosen leaves prior to hanging bundles on stick.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who hangs bundles of tobacco on sticks moving on chain conveyor to redrying machine. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes bundles from table and observes color shade.
* Spreads leaves of bundle to form opening and hangs bundle on stick conveying bundles of similar color shade.
* May shake bundles that have been packed in hogsheads to loosen leaves prior to hanging bundles on stick.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to can, freeze, preserve, or pack food products. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps or places food products in hopper, on sorting table, or on conveyor.
* Sorts or grades products according to size, color, or quality.
* Feeds products into processing equipment, such as washing, refrigerating, peeling, coring, pitting, trimming, grinding, dicing, cooking, or slicing machines.
* Trims, peels, and slices products with knife or paring tool.
* Feeds empty containers onto conveyor or forming machines.
* Fills containers, using scoop or filling form, or packs by hand.
* Counts, weighs, or tallies processed items according to specifications.
* Inspects and weighs filled containers to ensure product conforms to quality and weight standards.
* Places filled containers on trays, racks, or into boxes.
* Loads, moves, or stacks containers by hand or handtruck, and cleans glass jar containers, using airhose.
* May be designated according to work performed as Dumper; Peeler; Sorter; Trimmer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who pushes box truck filled with cigarette tobacco to cigarette-making machine, and feeds double handful of tobacco into hopper.
Industry:Professional careers
