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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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Company Profile:
A professional who cracks nuts, such as pecans, brazil nuts, and walnuts, using vise. * Picks out nut meats and drops meat in container.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates refining machines equipped with rollers to grind chocolate paste in accordance with specifications. Respnsibilities include: * Starts conveyor to feed chocolate into refiner hoppers. * Feels consistency of chocolate in hoppers to determine grinding required. * Turns handwheels on machine to adjust clearance between rollers. * Opens hopper and starts machine that feeds chocolate between rollers of refining machine. * Observes thermometer or feels rollers and turns water valves to obtain specified temperature of rollers. * Examines, feels, and tastes ground chocolate paste to ascertain if color, texture, and taste meet standards. * Collects sample of paste for laboratory analysis. * May observe flowmeters and turn valves to measure out cocoa butter, vegetable oil, and other ingredients, according to formula, and to fortify chocolate in mixing tanks. * May scoop refined chocolate paste into wheeled troughs or barrels. * May weigh and transport barrels to cold storage rooms, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates peeling machine to behead and peel shrimp preparatory to canning or freezing. Respnsibilities include: * Spaces peeling rolls on machine, according to size of shrimp to be processed and adjusts holding rack bars to intermesh between rolls, using wrenches. * Turns thumbscrews to adjust spring tension on holding rack bars, according to shrimp size and turns valves to start water flow over rolls. * Starts machine and feed conveyor and spreads shrimp over feed pan at head of rolls to ensure even distribution, using wooden rake. * Examines samples of peeled shrimp to ensure conformance with standards. * Adjusts roll spacing and holding for tension as required. * Dismantles and cleans machine with high-pressure stream from water hose. * May sterilize machine parts by directing hot water or live steam over them with hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes hulls and foreign matter from almonds. Respnsibilities include: * Starts machine and dumps almonds into hopper of machine. * Moves levers to control flow of almonds from hopper to machine that agitates screens or cylinders to remove hulls from almonds. * Turns valve to regulate pressure and directional flow of air that separates loose hulls, twigs and foreign matter from nuts. * Observes almonds as they pass on conveyor belt from machine to ascertain that hulls are removed. * Changes screens or adjusts cylinders of machine to accommodate different varieties of almonds, using wrench. * May sew sacks of almonds. * May nail covers on crates filled with hulled almonds.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends almond-blanching machine that removes skins from almonds. Respnsibilities include: * Turns valves to fill kettle of machine with water and to admit steam into heating chamber of kettle. * Observes steam pressure and water temperature gauges, and turns valves to regulate steam pressure and water temperature, according to specifications. * Actuates machine to start flow of almonds into kettle. * Turns handwheel to adjust rollers that squeeze skins from almonds. * Observes blanched (skinned) almonds as they emerge from blanching machine and makes necessary adjustments to machine to ensure that skins are removed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that dices, halves, slices, or slivers almond meats. Respnsibilities include: * Installs specified cutting blades, using handtools. * Actuates machine to start flow of almond meats into machine. * Examines cut almond meats to check for conformance with cutting specifications. * Adjusts cutting blades as required. * Inserts different blades into machine to accommodate various sizes of almonds. * Sharpens blades with file or bench grinder. May be designated according to function of machine tended as Dicer-Machine Operator; Halver-Machine Operator; Slicer-Machine Operator; Sliver-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to maintain specific gravity of starch suspensions emerging from filter machines and starch-flushing system, and transfers solution for conversion into sugar and glucose. Respnsibilities include: * Dips sample from breaker tank and tests for specific gravity, using hydrometer. * Turns valves to return suspension for reflushing if density does not meet standards. * Starts tank agitators to prevent starch from settling. * Turns valves and starts pumps to transfer solution to storage tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that bleaches and filters unrefined lard or edible oil. Respnsibilities include: * Starts pumps to draw unrefined material from storage tank into bleaching kettle. * Dumps prescribed amount of fuller's earth into kettle to absorb impurities in material. * Starts agitators to mix materials. * Turns valves to allow steam or cool water to circulate through bleacher coils to heat or cool material to specified temperature. * Draws sample of material for laboratory analysis. * Dumps additional fuller's earth in kettle as directed. * Inserts new filter cloths on filter plates. * Starts pumps to draw material from bleaching kettle and force it through filter-press. * Starts pumps to drain bleached and filtered material from filter-press tank into storage tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that bleaches and filters unrefined lard or edible oil. Respnsibilities include: * Starts pumps to draw unrefined material from storage tank into bleaching kettle. * Dumps prescribed amount of fuller's earth into kettle to absorb impurities in material. * Starts agitators to mix materials. * Turns valves to allow steam or cool water to circulate through bleacher coils to heat or cool material to specified temperature. * Draws sample of material for laboratory analysis. * Dumps additional fuller's earth in kettle as directed. * Inserts new filter cloths on filter plates. * Starts pumps to draw material from bleaching kettle and force it through filter-press. * Starts pumps to drain bleached and filtered material from filter-press tank into storage tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends banks of sifting and purifying machines that separate fine flour from coarse flour or middlings. Respnsibilities include: * Opens spouts and adjusts feed slides to route flour to machines and to regulate flow across sifters without overloading. * Feels sifted flour to detect uneven texture that indicates breaks in screens. * Pulls screen frames from machine to locate and replace broken screens. * Records weights of flour grades produced as indicated on automatic scales. * May collect flour samples periodically for laboratory testing. * May perform color tests of flour, comparing color of various batches to maintain quality of milled product. * May be designated according to machine tended as Purifier.
Industry:Professional careers
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