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A professional who cleans redrying machines and keeps tobacco-stem offal removed from shaker-screen. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls dust pans from redryers and empties pans into box.
* Blows dust and fine scrap from under machines and work area, using airhose.
* Pushes full boxes of offal from shaker-screen to collecting point and replaces full box with empty one.
* Beats dust from canvas dust-collecting tubes, using wooden stick.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically forms lollypops of specified shape on ends of wooden sticks. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns steam valve to heat candy hopper or rollers of candy-spinning unit.
* Pours candy into machine hopper and fills receptacle with sucker sticks.
* Monitors and adjusts machine to prevent jamming.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that compresses malted milk powder into tablets. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps powder into hopper, using scoop, and starts machine.
* Moves hopper lever to deposit specified amount of powder into forming dies in machine table.
* Examines tablets to determine thickness and hardness, and turns wheel to adjust positions of forming dies and punch dies in machine head.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends central control panelboard, connected to series of pumps and hose lines, to transfer whiskeys from storage tanks to bottling tanks. Respnsibilities include:
* Connects hose lines from panelboard to series of electric pumps with lines connected to storage tanks and bottling tanks.
* Starts pumps and turns valves on panelboard to transfer and regulate flow of whiskey from storage tank to bottling tank.
* Reads meters on panelboard to ascertain when tanks are filled.
* Turns valves on panelboard to admit compressed air through valves and hose lines to clear excess whiskey from lines.
* Collects whiskey samples for laboratory analysis.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that cool liquid margarine, lard, or shortening, and knead solidified material preparatory to packaging. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts kneading unit of machine.
* Opens valve to admit liquid material to cooling unit that solidifies it and to transfer solids to kneading unit that imparts smooth texture.
* Observes gauges and adjusts controls to keep specified temperature and pressure of material in cooling and kneading units.
* Turns valves to regulate flow of processed material into hoppers of packaging machine.
* May clean lines and equipment, using pressurized steam and nitrogen gas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to clean and spray interiors of aluminum or steel beer barrels or kegs, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Tends drilling machine to remove plastic or wood cork from bunghole.
* Lifts barrel onto conveyor for transfer to washing or pitching machine.
* Tends washing or pitching machine that cleans or coats barrels with pitch.
* Observes gauges and thermometers and turns valves to maintain temperatures at specified operating levels.
* Dumps bags of pitch into machine pots.
* Screws metal plugs into tap and bungholes.
* Unscrews plugs from pitched barrels, wipes holes with rags to remove excess pitch, and hammers cork into taphole.
* Inserts light into barrel and inspects interior surfaces for dents, holes, dirt, and completeness of pitch coverage.
* Loads and unloads conveyors.
* Stacks barrels on floor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that washes raw fruits or vegetables, preparatory to processing, canning, freezing, or packing. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valve to fill machine with water and adds prescribed cleaning agents.
* Dumps raw fruits or vegetables into machine hopper and starts conveyor that carries produce through machine.
* Drains, cleans, and refills machine at designated intervals.
* May lubricate machine and make minor repairs.
* When operating washer with waxing unit attached, may be designated Washing-And-Waxing-Machine Operator.
* May be designated according to commodity washed as Apple Washer; Carrot Washer; Orange Washer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that cleans, moisturizes, and cracks wheat for cereal products, preparatory to cooking. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyors to transfer wheat from storage to vibrating screens in grading and cleaning units.
* Sets thermostat at specified temperature to heat water used to wash grain and increase moisture content to designated value.
* Turns valves and moves controls to regulate flow of water and grain through washer and soaking bin and to transfer grain to grinder rolls for cracking.
* Observes process to correct conveyor jamming and to open plugged holes in separator screens.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that cleans, moisturizes, and cracks wheat for cereal products, preparatory to cooking. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyors to transfer wheat from storage to vibrating screens in grading and cleaning units.
* Sets thermostat at specified temperature to heat water used to wash grain and increase moisture content to designated value.
* Turns valves and moves controls to regulate flow of water and grain through washer and soaking bin and to transfer grain to grinder rolls for cracking.
* Observes process to correct conveyor jamming and to open plugged holes in separator screens.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends unit of fresh-work cigar machine that cuts wrapper leaf and wraps leaf around bunch. Respnsibilities include:
* Spreads wrapper leaf over die of machine.
* Presses pedal to lower knife that cuts leaf.
* Releases pedal to raise knife and start mechanism that removes cut leaf and wraps it around bunch.
* Pastes portion of leaf over holes or tears to patch wrapper leaves.
Industry:Professional careers
