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A professional who prepares and cans mushroom steak sauce, using mixing, filling, and canning machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs ingredients, such as flour, chicken fat, starch, and seasoning, and dumps them into agitator partly filled with water.
* Closes kettle and cooks to proper consistency.
* Adds sliced mushrooms and continues cooking for specified time.
* Opens valve to permit flow of sauce to filling machine and starts automatic can filler and canning machines.
* Keeps hopper supplied with lids.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to transfer glucose from refinery to cooling equipment and storage tanks or to load tank cars and drums preparatory to shipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts vat agitator, and turns valves to admit water to cooling coils and transfer glucose from refinery to cooling vat.
* Starts pump to transfer cooled glucose to storage tank or tank cars.
* Removes bung cap of drum and examines interior for cleanliness.
* Positions drum on rack and turns spigot to fill drum with glucose.
* Screws bung cap to seal filled drums, using wrench.
* Weighs drums before and after filling, and stencils tare, gross, and net weight on drums.
* Obtains sample of glucose from vat for laboratory analysis.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that mixes diatomaceous earth, milk of lime, and acid with liquors and syrups to form slurry for filtration process. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to regulate flow of slurries through series of blow-up tanks, and to maintain temperature, content level, and air agitation in tanks.
* Adds milk of lime or phosphoric acid to slurry to obtain specified alkalinity.
* Tests slurries for density, using refractometer, and adds liquor or diatomaceous earth to maintain specified density.
* Tests samples of slurries to ascertain that specified purification is occurring.
* Records operating data on forms or blackboard.
* Prepares phosphoric acid solutions of specified concentration for use in filtration process.
* Cleans blocked lines and blow-ups.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that extrudes and dries compressed yeast to make bakers' active dry yeast. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps compressed yeast into hopper of extruding machine.
* Observes temperature indicator and moisture gauges on drier, and sets controls to maintain prescribed temperature and humidity in drier.
* Starts extruder that forms yeast into noodles and deposits them onto conveyor belt that carries yeast noodles through drier.
* Collects yeast samples from conveyor at specified locations in drier, submits samples to laboratory for analysis, and adjusts temperature and humidity of drier on basis of laboratory report.
* Connects mill to hopper outlet to grind dried yeast to specified fineness.
* Opens outlet of drier or mill hopper to fill containers.
* Weighs containers and records weight.
* Transfers containers to storage, using lift truck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mashes peas and registers force required to crush them to ascertain hardness (maturity) and grades peas. Respnsibilities include:
* Fills measured pail with pea sample and weighs sample, using scale.
* Washes and cleans sample to remove debris, such as thistles and weeds, reweighs sample, and calculates percentage of waste per load of peas based on sample.
* Pours pea sample into top of size grader and counts number of peas in each grade level to calculate percentage of each grade of pea in crop.
* Dumps cleaned peas on grid of machine and closes cover.
* Starts motor to rotate disks of grid which mash peas and simultaneously registers force required on dial.
* Repeats test on second sample from same pan and records dial readings.
* Records average force required to mash peas, which determines quality of product.
* Inserts slip showing quality into container.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to weigh oils and other ingredients used in making margarine or shortening, following standard formulas. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pump, and turns valve to admit ingredients into scale tank until specified weight has been reached.
* Positions weights on scale bar to weigh additives or smaller batches of ingredients.
* Records weights of ingredients.
* Turns valves to empty weighed ingredients from scale tanks into mixing vat for blending.
* May turn valve to admit air into scale tanks to agitate and mix ingredients.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to weigh oils and other ingredients used in making margarine or shortening, following standard formulas. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pump, and turns valve to admit ingredients into scale tank until specified weight has been reached.
* Positions weights on scale bar to weigh additives or smaller batches of ingredients.
* Records weights of ingredients.
* Turns valves to empty weighed ingredients from scale tanks into mixing vat for blending.
* May turn valve to admit air into scale tanks to agitate and mix ingredients.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties concerned with processing nuts. Respnsibilities include:
* Stirs nuts being boiled in water to soften shells preparatory to cracking, using paddle.
* Dumps softened nuts into hoppers or onto conveyors leading to cracking and packing machines.
* Changes nut-cracking barrels on machines, using handtools.
* Mixes, weighs, and pours nuts into containers.
* Cleans working areas, machines, and equipment.
* Moves materials, supplies, and nuts between work areas, using dollies and handtrucks.
* May be concerned with specific phase of nut processing and be designated Nut-Roaster Helper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties concerned with processing nuts. Respnsibilities include:
* Stirs nuts being boiled in water to soften shells preparatory to cracking, using paddle.
* Dumps softened nuts into hoppers or onto conveyors leading to cracking and packing machines.
* Changes nut-cracking barrels on machines, using handtools.
* Mixes, weighs, and pours nuts into containers.
* Cleans working areas, machines, and equipment.
* Moves materials, supplies, and nuts between work areas, using dollies and handtrucks.
* May be concerned with specific phase of nut processing and be designated Nut-Roaster Helper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests tobacco samples from various stages of processing to determine conformance to quality standards. Respnsibilities include:
* Obtains tobacco samples from various processing areas to ensure representative sampling.
* Conducts tests to determine characteristics of tobacco batch, such as stem length, percentage of lamina, stem, and foreign matter content, using scales, laboratory equipment, and calculator.
Industry:Professional careers
