- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in removing offcolor tobacco, stem particles, and foreign matter from tobacco as it moves along belt conveyors. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes conveyors to detect malfunctioning.
* Observes activities of workers picking green and dark tobacco, stem particles, and foreign matter, such as string, dirt, and paper from tobacco to ensure that tobacco is processed, according to instructions.
* Notifies maintenance department of major breakdowns.
* Turns knob and moves lever to adjust feed chutes and equalize distribution of tobacco on conveyors.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls continuous absorption process equipment to remove coloring from sugar beet juice and gas regenerating furnace to reactivate carbon (burn out impurities). Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyors and elevators to fill absorption tank with activated carbon.
* Opens valves and starts pumps to force sugar juice through carbon in tank.
* Observes gauges and recorder readings on panelboard and adjusts controls to obtain constant flow of juice through tank.
* Draws sample of juice and observes color for conformance to specifications.
* Diverts flow of juice through standby tank when color of juice does not meet specifications.
* Moves controls on panelboard to admit fuel and air into regenerating furnace, and presses button that automatically ignites fire in furnace.
* Starts conveyors and feeders to convey carbon from tank into furnace that removes impurities in carbon.
* Reads gauges and recorders and adjusts controls to regulate furnace temperature, fuel-air ratio, and feed rate of carbon into furnace.
* Records operating data in station log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment to clean and grind whole grain for use in production of distilled liquors. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects carloads of whole grain to detect presence of harmful insects, such as weevils and grain beetles.
* Collects sample of grain from each carload for laboratory analysis.
* Records number of boxcar from which each sample is taken.
* Pumps whole grain from boxcars to storage tanks or hopper of cleaning machine, using air-conveyor chutes.
* Starts automatic cleaning machine that blows and sifts foreign particles, such as dirt, twigs, and stones from whole grain and conveys clean grain to storage tank for further processing.
* Pumps clean grain from storage tank into hopper balanced on scale and records weight of grain before dumping into grinding machine.
* Starts grinding machine, and regulates flow of grain from hopper.
* Pumps ground meal from grinding machine into scale-hopper to compute and record difference in weight of grain before and after grinding.
* Pumps ground meal into meal tank for further processing.
* Signals miller helper, distillery to connect air-conveyor chutes to pumps and storage tanks, clean or change screens on cleaning machine, stop and start pumps, conveyors, and machines, and lubricate moving parts of machines and equipment.
* Makes minor repairs and adjustments to pumps, air-conveyor chutes, and machines.
* May be designated according to specific duties as Grain Miller; Grain-Cleaner-And-Transfer Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls refinery equipment to produce sugar and sugar products from starch. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads dials, meters, and gauges, and moves controls to adjust and regulate treating time, temperature, rate of flow and density of sugar liquors through filter and evaporator units.
* Monitors panelboard to detect and correct equipment malfunctioning.
* Records processing, control, and other production data in log.
* Directs refinery operator, assistant and filter tender when emergency operation of equipment is manually required, or in operational assignments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls refinery equipment to produce sugar and sugar products from starch. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads dials, meters, and gauges, and moves controls to adjust and regulate treating time, temperature, rate of flow and density of sugar liquors through filter and evaporator units.
* Monitors panelboard to detect and correct equipment malfunctioning.
* Records processing, control, and other production data in log.
* Directs refinery operator, assistant and filter tender when emergency operation of equipment is manually required, or in operational assignments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends bone-char filters to remove soluble impurities and nonsugars from sugar-liquor solutions. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs char-filter-operator helper in filling filter tanks with bone-char and liquor.
* Inspects installations to ensure that hoses are connected to specified manifold pipe.
* Posts data on blackboard relating to filter operations, such as starting and ending time and quality of liquor being filtered, filters broken down for char regeneration, and filters being washed to recover sugar in char.
* Notifies other stations when changing filter hookups to ensure flow of specified liquor.
* Directs helper in removing filter heads, poking filters to break up layers of diatomaceous earth, and changing manifold setups to ensure continuation of refining.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls evaporating equipment to concentrate suspensions and solutions to specified degree in vacuum tanks or pans. Respnsibilities include:
* Pumps liquid into evaporator tank or vacuum pan.
* Moves switches to start vacuum pumps and maintain specified pressure.
* Turns valves to admit steam into evaporator chest, coils, tubes, or jackets and regulate steam input to maintain specified temperature.
* Tests concentration of evaporated solution, using refractometer and hydrometer, and adjusts feeds, temperatures, and pressure accordingly.
* Pumps concentrated liquid to storage.
* May tend auxiliary equipment, such as settling tanks, preheating tanks, condensers, and cooling equipment.
* May supervise workers weighing and mixing batches to predetermined formulas.
* May pump batch through sterilizer.
* May control chiller to reduce temperature of fresh citrus juice.
* May be designated according to material evaporated as Evaporator Operator, Molasses; Tomato-Paste Maker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates flotation machine to remove germs (embryos) from cracked grain, and tests product to ensure conformance with standards. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines specific gravity of cracked grain suspension, using hydrometer.
* Turns valves to add grain or water to attain specified density.
* Starts machine that agitates suspension and permits oil-laden germs to rise to surface.
* Adds liquid of specified density that causes germs to float and tests residue for presence of germs.
* Makes iodine titration on fluid and suspension leaving germ separator, computes sulfur dioxide content from amount of iodine added, and records test findings.
* May turn valves to regulate flow of materials to other processes, as directed.
* May operate shakers to remove bran and other fibers from starch suspension.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more cracking and fanning machines that shell and crack cocoa beans and separate shells from nibs (cracked beans) preparatory to further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine rollers and blowers that shell and crack beans and starts conveyors that carry off shells and transfer nibs to treating drum.
* Turns handwheels to adjust roller pressure so that resultant nibs are of specified size.
* Moves handles to adjust air supply to blower to ensure thorough separation of shells from nibs.
* Observes thermometer and turns cold water valve to cool conveyor carrying beans from roaster to cracking fanning machine.
* May grind nibs to obtain liquid chocolate of specified consistency.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more cracking and fanning machines that shell and crack cocoa beans and separate shells from nibs (cracked beans) preparatory to further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine rollers and blowers that shell and crack beans and starts conveyors that carry off shells and transfer nibs to treating drum.
* Turns handwheels to adjust roller pressure so that resultant nibs are of specified size.
* Moves handles to adjust air supply to blower to ensure thorough separation of shells from nibs.
* Observes thermometer and turns cold water valve to cool conveyor carrying beans from roaster to cracking fanning machine.
* May grind nibs to obtain liquid chocolate of specified consistency.
Industry:Professional careers
