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A professional who tends one or more machines that churn processed shortening and margarine to obtain specified viscosity of mixture. Respnsibilities include: * Observes flow of stock in churner to avoid spilling. * Adjusts valves to control and direct overflow into reprocessing tank. * Starts machine to churn mixture, stops machine when specified viscosity is obtained, and opens valves and starts pump to transfer mixture. * Adjusts governor to regulate speed of pump that transfers product into packaging machines. * Collects and weighs sample of shortening at prescribed intervals to determine amount of nitrogen gas or air content in batch, using balance scale. * Notifies votator-machine operator to add or delete nitrogen gas, according to weight standards. * Adjusts valves to keep specified temperature in churner. * Observes pressure and temperature gauges, and records readings. * Cleans equipment and lines, using pressurized steam and nitrogen gas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends flour sifter and vats to mix fermenting, oxidizing, and shortening solutions, according to formula. Respnsibilities include: * Dumps flour from bins into sifting machine, using mechanical tipping apparatus or power chain hoist. * Opens valve, meters specified amount of water into fermenting vats, and adjusts thermostat to heat water to specified temperature. * Measures or weighs yeast food, milk solids, salt, sugar, and enrichment ingredients, according to formula, and dumps ingredients into vats. * Starts vat agitators and adds yeast at specified period to ferment solution. * Opens valves and starts pumps to run solution through heat regulator to dough-mixing machine. * Measures specified amounts of oxidizing solution and liquid shortening and dumps them into holding tanks. * Keeps record of time and temperature readings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends flour sifter and vats to mix fermenting, oxidizing, and shortening solutions, according to formula. Respnsibilities include: * Dumps flour from bins into sifting machine, using mechanical tipping apparatus or power chain hoist. * Opens valve, meters specified amount of water into fermenting vats, and adjusts thermostat to heat water to specified temperature. * Measures or weighs yeast food, milk solids, salt, sugar, and enrichment ingredients, according to formula, and dumps ingredients into vats. * Starts vat agitators and adds yeast at specified period to ferment solution. * Opens valves and starts pumps to run solution through heat regulator to dough-mixing machine. * Measures specified amounts of oxidizing solution and liquid shortening and dumps them into holding tanks. * Keeps record of time and temperature readings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mixing tanks and cooling equipment that blend unslacked lime with molasses for extraction of sugar and monosodium glutamate. Respnsibilities include: * Turns valves and starts conveyor to fill cooler vat with specified amount of molasses and lime. * Starts agitator and cooling system. * Reads dials and gauges on panel control board to ascertain temperature, alkalinity, and density of mixture, and turns valves to obtain specified mixture. * Opens valves and starts pump to pump mixture to filter station. * Records data, such as volume of lime and molasses used, temperature, alkalinity, and density on report form. * May be designated according to machine operated as Vortex Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mixing tanks to fortify sugar liquid extracted from beets with concentrated sugar liquids to obtain standard sugar liquor. Respnsibilities include: * Starts pumps and mixing tank agitators and opens valves to fill mixing tank with thin sugar juice and concentrated sugar liquid. * Tests density of sugar liquor, using hydrometer. * Pumps liquids into tank until specified density of liquor is obtained. * Takes sample of liquor for laboratory analysis. * Records operational data.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs and mixes seasonings and other ingredients to prepare spice mixes, according to formula, for use in flavoring canned food products. Respnsibilities include: * Weighs specified ingredients, such as spices, salt, and flour, using scales. * Mixes ingredients, using mixing machine, spatula, or portable mixer. * Fills containers to specified weight with mix for use in canning process.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mixing machine that blends spices. Respnsibilities include: * Weighs out each variety of spice required and pours or shovels them into hopper of machine. * Starts machine to mix spices to specified consistency. * Pulls lever to tilt machine and dump mix into container or storage bin. * May sift spices before mixing, using mechanical sifter. * May compare color of mixture with standard color chart to ensure color meets specifications. * When mixing tea, may be designated Tea Blender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who twists round strips of dough to form into pretzels. Respnsibilities include: * Picks piece of dough from conveyor and holds one end between thumb and forefinger of each hand. * Flips dough into loop, and crosses and presses ends to outer circumference. * Arranges pretzels on tray for baking. * Records number of pretzels twisted.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to blend ingredients, and knead, extrude, and cut dough used to make noodles. Respnsibilities include: * Installs specified die in press, using handtools. * Adjusts press rollers to regulate thickness of dough, using micrometer and handtool. * Dumps premeasured quantity of eggs into tub, sets meter, and turns spigot to admit prescribed amount of water. * Starts beater to mix eggs and water for specified time. * Starts pumps to transfer mixture to mixing unit of press. * Opens hopper to admit flour into mixing unit and starts press to process mixture. * Turns screw to set speed of knives to cut product to specified length. * Patrols drying chambers and observes temperature and humidity readings recorded on charts for variation in drying procedure. * Reports chart deviations to production manager. * Records type of product, date, and time of entry and discharge of product from drying chambers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends minglers that mix raw sugar and affination (syrup) to prepare raw magma of specified density. Respnsibilities include: * Starts mingler and signals melt-house drag operator, using bell, to start flow of sugar to minglers. * Turns valve to start flow of affination into minglers. * Regulates speed of mingler and controls flow of affination to maintain magma at specified density and level in receiving tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
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