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Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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Company Profile:
A professional who operates redrying machine to dry, cool, and moisten tobacco for packing or further processing. Respnsibilities include: * Starts flow of steam or hot air into drying units and steam and water in ordering section. * Starts fan that circulates hot air in drying units and conveyor that carries tobacco through drying unit, cooling section, and ordering section. * Observes air pressure gauges, humidity and temperature charts, or thermometer to determine whether specified amount of heat, steam, or air pressure is maintained. * Feels tobacco to determine moisture content and regulates flow of hot air, steam, and water to correct deviations from standard. * May remove sample leaves of tobacco from machine for moisture content measurement.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates redrying machine to dry, cool, and moisten tobacco for packing or further processing. Respnsibilities include: * Starts flow of steam or hot air into drying units and steam and water in ordering section. * Starts fan that circulates hot air in drying units and conveyor that carries tobacco through drying unit, cooling section, and ordering section. * Observes air pressure gauges, humidity and temperature charts, or thermometer to determine whether specified amount of heat, steam, or air pressure is maintained. * Feels tobacco to determine moisture content and regulates flow of hot air, steam, and water to correct deviations from standard. * May remove sample leaves of tobacco from machine for moisture content measurement.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends rotary vacuum and drum or leaf pressure filters that purify liquid sugars. Respnsibilities include: * Turns valves to control flow of materials through filters during semiautomatic or manual operation of equipment, as instructed. * Observes liquid sugar flowing through filters to detect cloudiness and turns valves to regulate flow, recirculate filtrate, or bypass filter for cleaning. * Moves levers to raise filter covers and cleans filter, using hot water hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to transfer surplus yeast from fermenting cellar to storage tanks in yeast drying plant. Respnsibilities include: * Couples hose between yeast tank and flow lines, using wrench. * Opens valves on line to effect uninterrupted flow. * Notifies yeast plant to prepare to receive yeast. * Opens gravity-feed outlet valve to permit yeast to drop into storage tanks. * Climbs into tank to spray yeast residue with water and pushes it to outlet to complete transfer, using water hose and paddle.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines filled bottles of distilled liquor to detect imperfections or breaks in glass or foreign particles within bottle. Respnsibilities include: * Removes bottle from conveyor line, places it in front of strong light, and examines it to detect imperfections in glass or foreign particles within bottle. * Informs container washer, machine to stop machine when foreign particles are detected within bottles. * May be designated according to type of liquor inspected as Gin Inspector; Whiskey Inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines filled bottles of distilled liquor to detect imperfections or breaks in glass or foreign particles within bottle. Respnsibilities include: * Removes bottle from conveyor line, places it in front of strong light, and examines it to detect imperfections in glass or foreign particles within bottle. * Informs container washer, machine to stop machine when foreign particles are detected within bottles. * May be designated according to type of liquor inspected as Gin Inspector; Whiskey Inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates ordering machine to moisten tobacco preparatory to processing. Respnsibilities include: * Starts machine and conveyor and turns valve to start flow of steam into chamber. * Observes gauge to determine whether specified amount of steam pressure is maintained. * Feels tobacco leaves to determine moisture content and regulates flow of steam, hot air, or water so that tobacco will be pliable and easily processed. * Observes flow of tobacco from machine onto conveyor or into tubs or boxes. * Regulates speed of conveyor. * May feed tobacco onto conveyor of ordering machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loads cuts of meat into pickling vats or barrels to cure meat preparatory to smoking. Respnsibilities include: * Packs and arranges meat in vats or barrels by hand or with meat hook to ensure maximum saturation. * Turns valves to admit curing solution into vats or pours in solution by hand. * Covers vat or barrel to keep meat protected and submerged in solution. * Sticks trier (hook) into meat and smells trier to determine degree of curing. * Opens valves or pulls bungs to drain vats and barrels, and removes cured meat for further processing. * Dumps frozen meat in water tank to defrost it preparatory to curing. * May roll barrels to rearrange meat and ensure maximum saturation. * May flush or blow marrow from ham bones. * May clean vats with water and steam hoses.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that rinses and dries cottage cheese and blends it with cream to produce cream-style cottage cheese. Respnsibilities include: * Inserts plastic liner in tub, sprays liner interior with sterilizing fluid, and slides tub under machine discharge outlet. * Signals cottage-cheese maker to pump cottage cheese to machine. * Presses switches and turns water valve to start machine that spreads cottage cheese into even layer, sprays cheese with refrigerated water to cool and rinse it, and squeezes cheese dry under pressure belt. * Feels dried cheese to determine if specified amount of water is removed, and adjusts pressure belt, as required, using wrenches. * Starts pump and turns valve to control flow of cream from refrigerated tank to auger that blends cream with cottage cheese. * Observes texture of creamed cottage cheese and adjusts valve to maintain cream content at specified level. * Tastes cottage cheese and reports off-flavors to management. * Stops machine and closes filled tub. * Blends cream and salt according to formula, using mixer, and pumps cream to refrigerated tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that cools and adds yeast to wort to produce beer. Respnsibilities include: * Starts pumps and turns valves to control flow of refrigerant through cooler coils, to regulate flow of hot wort from tank through cooler into starting tank, and to admit specified amounts of air into wort. * Turns valves to add yeast to wort and to transfer wort to fermenting tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
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