- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that mixes such ingredients as chocolate liquor, sugar, powdered milk, and cocoa butter preparatory to making sweet chocolate. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and dumps dry ingredients into mixing machine by hand, hydraulic lift, or conveyor equipped with automatic scale.
* Observes meters and turns valves to admit measured amounts of liquids into mixer.
* Observes thermometer and sets thermostat to heat mixer to specified temperature.
* Starts mixer.
* Examines mixture to ensure that consistency conforms to standards.
* Starts conveyor to transfer finished batch to refining machine.
* May tend automatic sugar grinders or pulverizers.
* May be designated according to type of mixer used as Melangeur Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes such ingredients as chocolate liquor, sugar, powdered milk, and cocoa butter preparatory to making sweet chocolate. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and dumps dry ingredients into mixing machine by hand, hydraulic lift, or conveyor equipped with automatic scale.
* Observes meters and turns valves to admit measured amounts of liquids into mixer.
* Observes thermometer and sets thermostat to heat mixer to specified temperature.
* Starts mixer.
* Examines mixture to ensure that consistency conforms to standards.
* Starts conveyor to transfer finished batch to refining machine.
* May tend automatic sugar grinders or pulverizers.
* May be designated according to type of mixer used as Melangeur Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes and blends food ingredients to produce such products as mayonnaise, mustard and salad dressing, and spices, according to formula. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs such ingredients as eggs, salt, spices, and sugar, using scale or weighing hopper.
* Dumps ingredients into mixing machine.
* Turns valves to permit measured amounts of such liquids as oil, water, or vinegar to flow from tanks into mixing machine.
* Starts machine and observes mixing to ensure thorough blending.
* Starts pumps to transfer contents of mixer to containers, filling machines, or storage tanks.
* May grind dry ingredients, using grinding machine.
* May be designated according to product mixed as Egg-And-Spice Mixer; Mayonnaise Mixer; Mustard Mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes chili powder with other spice ingredients for use as seasoning. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures and weighs out specified quantities of ground chili peppers, garlic, salt, and other ingredients and dumps them into hopper of mixing machine.
* Adjusts controls to regulate steam pressure in jacket of mixer and starts machine.
* Compares sample of mixture with standard sample to ensure that mixture meets color and texture specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes, blends, or kneads ingredients to make dry-food products, such as baking powder, gelatin desserts, pie thickeners, and ice cream powders. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs or measures ingredients and dumps them into mixer or opens valve to admit specified amounts of each ingredient into mixer from storage hopper.
* Admits steam or coolant into jacket of mixer and sets thermostat to maintain temperature in mixer at specified level.
* Regulates mixing time and speed for mixing, blending, or kneading, and starts machine.
* May perform acidity tests, using pH meter or may submit samples to laboratory.
* May add additional ingredients and remix batch on basis of test results or laboratory recommendation.
* May start conveyor to transfer dry-food product to next process.
* May be designated according to food product mixed as Baking-Powder Mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that mixes ingredients for use in producing margarine. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to admit liquid ingredients, such as water or milk, into mixing vat.
* Dips measuring stick into vat and closes valve when liquid reaches specified level.
* Weighs specified quantities of dry ingredients, such as salt and powdered milk, and empties ingredients into vat.
* Starts agitator to mix liquid and powdered ingredients for specified time.
* Turns valve to empty mixed ingredients from vat for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends stuffing machine that fills molds with meat emulsion to form meat loaves. Respnsibilities include:
* Slides mold under discharge nozzle of stuffing machine and moves lever to discharge emulsion into mold.
* Removes filled molds and places them on racks for further processing.
* May fill molds with meat cuts or whole pieces of meat by hand or using compressed air plunger and be designated Hand Molder, Meat (meat products).
* May stuff bologna and canadian bacon into casings by hand.
* May close ends of filled casings with metal clip and by tying with string.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that presses ingredients into feed pellets for poultry and stock feed. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns steam valves to regulate temperature of machine.
* Observes ammeter and turns valves to regulate flow of material to machine.
* May adjust nozzles to regulate flow of molasses into ingredients and turn steam valves to regulate temperature of molasses.
* May adjust flow of air to cool pellets in cooler.
* May tend bucket elevator equipment to transfer pellets to storage.
* May adjust rollers to crush pelletized feed into crumbles.
* May mix poultry or stock feed preparatory to pelletizing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that presses ingredients into feed pellets for poultry and stock feed. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns steam valves to regulate temperature of machine.
* Observes ammeter and turns valves to regulate flow of material to machine.
* May adjust nozzles to regulate flow of molasses into ingredients and turn steam valves to regulate temperature of molasses.
* May adjust flow of air to cool pellets in cooler.
* May tend bucket elevator equipment to transfer pellets to storage.
* May adjust rollers to crush pelletized feed into crumbles.
* May mix poultry or stock feed preparatory to pelletizing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that presses such meats as bacon slabs, beef cuts, hams, and hog butts, into shape to facilitate slicing or packing. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions meat on table of pressing machine and depresses pedal or pulls lever to lower ram onto meat that compresses meat into shape.
* Removes meat from machine and places in container, or on conveyor for transfer to slicing machine.
* May tend slicing machine.
* May be designated according to cut of meat pressed as Butt Presser (meat products); Ham Molder (meat products).
Industry:Professional careers
