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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
A professional who inspects leaves of tobacco before and after stripping to determine whether leaves are suitable for use as binders. Respnsibilities include: * Inspects each leaf for holes and tears. * Places leaves to be used as binders in bundle for stripping and discards defective leaves. * Removes defective leaves from books and places books of perfect leaves in container. * May sprinkle water on books that appear dry.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects leaves of tobacco before and after stripping to determine whether leaves are suitable for use as binders. Respnsibilities include: * Inspects each leaf for holes and tears. * Places leaves to be used as binders in bundle for stripping and discards defective leaves. * Removes defective leaves from books and places books of perfect leaves in container. * May sprinkle water on books that appear dry.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines shellfish meats under ultraviolet light and removes pieces of shell, preparatory to canning. Respnsibilities include: * Places tray of shelled meats on table, or observes meats passing on conveyor under ultraviolet generators that cause shell particles to glow. * Turns and stirs meats by hand to view all sides and picks out and discards bits of shell, viscera, and foreign matter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who draws knife along ends of cigar molds to cut off excess tobacco protruding from molds. * Loads trimmed molds onto truck for removal to rolling department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes contaminated char (activated carbon) from corn syrup filters for reclaiming. Respnsibilities include: * Positions receiving platform at discharge gate of filter to unload used char. * Removes nuts to open discharge gate, using wrench. * Loosens and pulls char onto receiving platform and into chute to conveyor. * Sweeps filters to remove remaining char. * Arranges and smooths blankets that cover bottom plates of filter. * Replaces gate and tightens nuts evenly to prevent warp and leakage. * Cleans char from platform and floor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares char filter tanks for sugar-liquor filtration. Respnsibilities include: * Attaches hoses between filters and manifold, using wrenches. * Removes filter covers, using block and tackle. * Positions char chutes and starts conveyors to fill empty filters. * Attaches hose from manifold to weir box for mixing liquor with char while filling. * Covers filters after filling. * Opens air vents to purge air from filled filters. * Cleans hoses and drip pans.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions spout of portable tank containing starch solution over series of boxes lined with cloth and opens valve to fill each box. * Inverts boxes after water has drained through cloth to remove solid starch cakes, or scoops out starch with shovel, and places product on handtruck for transfer to kiln. * May move levers controlling flow of starch into steel casings and hang casings on hooks of overhead conveyor leading to kiln and be designated Starch Presser.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who separates yolk and glair (white) of eggs for use in food products. Respnsibilities include: * Strikes eggs against bar, allows contents to fall into bowl, and throws empty shells into receptacle. * Smells broken eggs to detect spoiled ones and dumps them into waste container. * Pours broken eggs from bowl over egg-separating device. * Pulls lever to retain yolk and to allow white to fall into cup below. * May be designated according to specialization as Egg Smeller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who separates individual leaves from pads of tobacco leaves pressed together in shipping. * Arranges leaves in rows on screen racks. * Assists other workers in carrying and lifting screen racks to storage racks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who replaces soiled filter cakes in beer filter, using handtools. * Disassembles filter press and separates plates (frames) to remove old filter pads. * Positions clean cakes between plates and reassembles filter.
Industry:Professional careers
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