- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that mixes food ingredients for subsequent processing, canning, or freezing. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads hopper of mixer with premeasured quantities of ingredients by hand, conveyor, bucket hoist, or by opening valves.
* Starts mixer and observes operation to ensure thorough blending.
* Pulls lever to tilt and empty mixer or uses scoop to empty mixture into chute, hopper, or container.
* May weigh out and measure ingredients, using platform scale and measuring containers.
* May observe and control conveyors and filling machines in processing line to ensure continuous operation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mixing and blending tanks, and auxiliary equipment to assist in preparing starch blends from raw starch suspensions. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps specified amount of chemicals into mixing tank to prepare chemical solutions.
* Observes signals from dry-starch operator and pushes or pulls switches, and turns valves to start pumps, heaters, and agitators, and to admit raw starch and chemical solutions into blending tanks.
* Draws samples of mixtures for testing.
* Monitors thermometers, meters, and gauges, to ensure that filters, shakers, centrifugals, and driers are operating efficiently.
* Reports equipment malfunctioning to dry-starch operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment to weigh and mix vegetable oils for products, such as salad oils, shortening, and margarine, according to formula. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves to pump oils from storage tanks to scale tank.
* Weighs oils and pumps specified quantity of each oil into blending tank.
* Draws off sample of mixed oil and examines it for texture and color.
* Sends sample to laboratory for chemical analysis.
* Turns valves to make adjustments to blending process according to results of tests.
* Pumps mixed oil to storage tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine that extrudes soft candy, such as fondant, to form centers of specified size and shape for bonbons and chocolates. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts die plate in machine and tightens thumbscrews to secure plate.
* Examines and feels candy for specified consistency.
* Dumps candy into machine hopper.
* Starts machine that automatically feeds candy through openings in die plate and cuts off and deposits formed pieces on conveyor, or moves control to force candy through openings in die plate and moves wires that cut extruded candy to specified thickness.
* Weighs formed pieces at random to determine adherence to specifications.
* Adjusts wire or knife that cuts extruded candy to specified dimensions.
* When making cream centers to be coated with chocolate, may synchronize speed of center machine with enrobing machine.
* May be designated by product formed as Fondant-Puff Maker; Marshmallow Runner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates dough-mixing-and-extruding press to produce cereal products in form of letters, pellets, or other shapes. Respnsibilities include:
* Cleans and installs perforated metal disk, containing openings of various shapes, in mixer.
* Attaches blade, using wrench, that sweeps around disk, shearing off extruded dough as it is forced through holes.
* Moves controls to set temperature of water, start flow of flour, water, and other ingredients into mixer, and regulate pressure forcing dough through extrusion die to maintain specified moisture content, color, and consistency of dough.
* May operate extruding press only, when mixing is performed by another worker.
* May be designated by form of extruded product as Pellet Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates one or more machines that roll chewing gum into sheets and score (partially cut) sheets to specified size. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns handwheels to adjust rollers, knives, and scoring blades on machine to regulate thickness of sheet gum and depth of scoring, according to specifications, using ruler.
* Starts scoring machine and flow of gum from mixer into hopper of machine.
* Measures width, length, and thickness of scored sheets to ensure conformance to specifications, using ruler.
* Examines sheets for scoring defects and completeness of sugar coating.
* May give directions to other workers engaged in loading and unloading scoring machine and coating gum with sugar.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates one or more machines that roll chewing gum into sheets and score (partially cut) sheets to specified size. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns handwheels to adjust rollers, knives, and scoring blades on machine to regulate thickness of sheet gum and depth of scoring, according to specifications, using ruler.
* Starts scoring machine and flow of gum from mixer into hopper of machine.
* Measures width, length, and thickness of scored sheets to ensure conformance to specifications, using ruler.
* Examines sheets for scoring defects and completeness of sugar coating.
* May give directions to other workers engaged in loading and unloading scoring machine and coating gum with sugar.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to mold soft candies, such as gumdrops, orange slices, and jellies. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs mold-printing board in machine and tightens thumbscrews or inserts wedges to secure it.
* Observes thermometer and turns steam valve to maintain specified temperature in candy-melting hopper.
* Opens valve or starts pump to fill hopper of depositing unit with fluid candy.
* Starts machine and turns handwheels to synchronize flow of candy from depositing spouts with speed of mold board as it passes beneath spouts for filling.
* Weighs formed candy for adherence to specifications and regulates spouts to increase or decrease flow accordingly.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to mold soft candies, such as gumdrops, orange slices, and jellies. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs mold-printing board in machine and tightens thumbscrews or inserts wedges to secure it.
* Observes thermometer and turns steam valve to maintain specified temperature in candy-melting hopper.
* Opens valve or starts pump to fill hopper of depositing unit with fluid candy.
* Starts machine and turns handwheels to synchronize flow of candy from depositing spouts with speed of mold board as it passes beneath spouts for filling.
* Weighs formed candy for adherence to specifications and regulates spouts to increase or decrease flow accordingly.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine that rolls or spins hot plastic candy into rope-like strip ready for cutting. Respnsibilities include:
* Kneads hot candy into cylindrical shape on steam-jacketed pouring plate with gloved hands.
* Turns water and steam valves to regulate temperature of plate.
* Actuates heating unit of batch roller and starts machine.
* Lifts candy from pouring plate and feeds candy between machine rollers.
* Pushes lever to reverse action of rollers to stretch and compact candy to required size strip.
* May feed strip, discharged from batch roller, into cutting machine.
* May make specified types of hard candy, performing combination of duties, such as flavoring or coloring batch; spreading soft-center mixture, such as peanut butter, jam, or paste onto partially set candy; pulling candy prior to rolling and spinning; or applying varicolored candy strips along cylinder to achieve mottled effect.
* May control battery of machines that automatically pump soft centers into candy, roll or spin candy, size rope candy, cut it to specified size, and pass it through cooling conveyor for wrapping and packing.
* When preparing rolls of jelly-centered coconut candy, may be designated Coconut-Jelly Roller.
Industry:Professional careers
