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A professional who repairs mats used in pressing oil from linseed. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts worn or damaged sections from mats, using knife.
* Stitches usable mat strips together and reinforces borders to make new mats, using sewing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who regulates flow of raw sugar from raw-sugar box to drags (conveyors) and elevators. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts drags.
* Lifts slide on raw-sugar box to allow sugar to fall on drags.
* Breaks up sugar lumps in box, using scraper.
* Shifts slides to rotate drawing of sugar from box and to prevent caking and buildups.
* Draws samples of raw sugar for laboratory analysis.
* Opens or closes slides to increase or decrease flow of sugar.
* Removes sugar strings from drag, scrolls, and grates and throws strings in waste container.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests moisture content of tobacco in various stages of processing by either of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Places tobacco sample in electrical moisture meter and turns on current.
* Observes meter indicator and compares reading with conversion chart to determine moisture content.
* Records date, time, temperature, moisture content, and meter reading for each sample tested.
* (2) Weighs sample of tobacco and places sample in oven.
* Removes and weighs sample after specified time.
* Compares difference in weights with conversion chart to determine moisture content.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests moisture content of tobacco in various stages of processing by either of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Places tobacco sample in electrical moisture meter and turns on current.
* Observes meter indicator and compares reading with conversion chart to determine moisture content.
* Records date, time, temperature, moisture content, and meter reading for each sample tested.
* (2) Weighs sample of tobacco and places sample in oven.
* Removes and weighs sample after specified time.
* Compares difference in weights with conversion chart to determine moisture content.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who aligns tips of leaves, fed onto conveyor by other workers, against guide rail of conveyor to ensure tips will be cut to uniform length by power knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes filter cloths from filter presses to unload separated solids used for making stock feed. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens press and inserts prying tool between plates to free filter cloths or turns wheel to release ram holding filter frames together.
* Pulls cloths loaded with solids from press and shakes material onto conveyor or scrapes residue into pans with spatula.
* Replaces clean cloths between plates and closes press.
* Shovels solids from pans into containers for further processing.
* Turns valve to move hydraulic ram against plates and hold cloths in position.
* May cut new filter cloths or papers.
* Usually works as member of team.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and sorts returned canned and bottled food products for possible salvage of contents. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens containers by hand or with opening devices and inspects containers and contents for defects such as leaking or mislabeled containers, or defective wrapping.
* Sets aside salvaged cans and bottles.
* Pours usable contents of defective cans or bottles into bulk containers.
* Discards rejected contents and containers into waste containers.
* Routes inspected materials to appropriate filling, packaging, and waste disposal points.
* May repackage salvaged cans and bottles.
* May wash glass containers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects samples of grain, mash, or wort, and alcoholic beverages in various stages of processing for laboratory analysis. Respnsibilities include:
* Dips, scoops, or siphons samples into laboratory containers and labels containers to identify sample.
* Records information such as sampling station and time, or brewer name and location on forms or journals.
* Loads sample containers on handtruck and pushes handtruck to laboratory area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shovels filler tobacco into hoppers of cigar-making machines and bunch-making machines.
* Transfers boxes or cases of shredded filler tobacco to machines, manually or using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts agricultural produce, such as bulbs, fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Respnsibilities include:
* Segregates produce on conveyor belt or table, working as crewmember, according to grade, color, and size, and places produce in containers or on designated conveyors.
* Discards cull (inferior or defective) items and foreign matter.
* Bunches, ties, and trims produce, such as asparagus, carrots, celery, and radishes.
* Picks out choice produce to be used as cappers (top layers on marketing containers).
* Packs produce in boxes, barrels, baskets, or crates for storage or shipment.
* May be designated according to work performed as apple sorter; asparagus grader and buncher; capper picker; citrus-fruit-packing grader; cull grader; potato grader.
* May be designated: asparagus sorter; banana grader; bulb sorter; cherry sorter; cranberry sorter; fig sorter; flower grader; fruit sorter; hop sorter; nut sorter; peach sorter; potato sorter; seed sorter; tomato grader; vegetable sorter; mushroom sorter-grader; trimmer-sorter; sorter-grader; raspberry checker.
Industry:Professional careers
