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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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Company Profile:
A professional who tends equipment to screen, blend, and convey granulated and confectioner's sugar to packing room and storage bins. Respnsibilities include: * Installs separation screens in machines according to size of sugar crystals specified. * Tests sugars for color and grist. * Blends sugars according to specifications. * Starts pneumatic conveyors and regulates speed to convey blended sugar to packing units or storage bins. * Gives directions to workers in screening, blending, and routing of sugar. * Keeps records of sugar on hand. * Inspects equipment and reports malfunction to superior. * May repair torn screens.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects cigarettes to determine quality of cigarette-making machine output. Respnsibilities include: * Collects and examines samples from each machine for defective printing, filling, sealing, and cutting. * Places twenty cigarettes in tray gauge to verify dimensions. * Verifies position of brand name printed on wrapper, using gauge. * Weighs cigarettes to determine conformance to standard and records weight and hour of weighing. * Notifies cigarette-making-machine operator of deviations from standards.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects tobacco purchased by company at auction warehouse for quality and uniformity of grade and identifies each basket of tobacco. Respnsibilities include: * Pulls handful of tobacco from pile and inspects tobacco for damage, mixed color, and grades. * Embosses company name over price marked on warehouse ticket to prevent alteration, using hand-embossing machine, or copies ticket and attaches duplicate to basket.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects tobacco purchased by company at auction warehouse for quality and uniformity of grade and identifies each basket of tobacco. Respnsibilities include: * Pulls handful of tobacco from pile and inspects tobacco for damage, mixed color, and grades. * Embosses company name over price marked on warehouse ticket to prevent alteration, using hand-embossing machine, or copies ticket and attaches duplicate to basket.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls carbonation and sulfitation equipment to purify and bleach sugar solution. Respnsibilities include: * Reads alkalinity indicator and turns knob on instrument control panel or hand valves on tanks to regulate flow of sulfur dioxide gas, carbon dioxide gas, lime, milk of lime, saccharate slurry, or sugar beet juice into carbonation tanks. * Draws, filters, and tests for alkalinity, solutions taken from carbonation tanks, using phenolphthalein and dilute hydrochloric acid. * Records results of tests on form.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates flash-drier and semiautomatic equipment to produce stockfeed or starch products from milled grain. Respnsibilities include: * Turns handwheels to regulate fineness of grind in processing stockfeed through attrition or hammer mill. * Starts pumps and turns valves to regulate moisture content and flow of material through filters, shakers, and centrifugal separators to process starch products. * Observes and reads instruments, such as thermometers and gauges to monitor process. * Listens for alarm that indicates excessive temperature in drier. * Turns valves to regulate gas burners and adjust drier temperature and flow of materials. * Feels sample of product to determine dryness. * Inspects conveyor system to prevent or correct jams. * Keeps record of instrument readings and processing conditions. * May manually operate equipment in event of emergency.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts blocks of cheese into pieces of specified shape and size. Respnsibilities include: * Examines cheese for defects in color, texture, and body. * Bolts specified cutting head to machine, using wrench, adjusts stops on cutting table, and turns wheels to position cutting wires. * Places block on table, and moves lever to lower cutting head or raise table to cut cheese. * Weighs cut cheese, places pieces on conveyor, and records amount cut. * May measure cheese with ruler and cut with hand cutter. * May trim rind, mold, or sediment from cheese, using knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who measures quantity and temperature of whiskey in bottles as they are filled by bottle-filling machine. Respnsibilities include: * Removes, at random, filled bottle of whiskey from conveyor, empties contents into graduated cylinder and records scale reading indicating fluid ounces. * Inserts thermometer and hydrometer into cylinder to measure temperature and proof of whiskey and records results of test. * Compares readings with charts indicating desired company standards to ensure that high quality of product is maintained during bottling process. * Pours contents of cylinder back into bottle and places bottle on conveyor for labeling. * Records size of bottle being filled, serial numbers, and brand of whiskey.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects frankfurters, wieners, or link sausages for uniformity of length and firmness of stuffing. * Records number and weight of product.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects frankfurters, wieners, or link sausages for uniformity of length and firmness of stuffing. * Records number and weight of product.
Industry:Professional careers