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A professional who tends equipment to mix grain for milling into blended flour. Respnsibilities include: * Starts belt conveyor and adjusts valve controls on automatic feeders to regulate proportions of specified grades of grain flowing from storage tanks onto conveyor. * Starts conveyors to transfer grain to milling department. * May inspect grain for smut, rust, or other contamination. * May find weight of minimum test bushel by filling standard measure with grain and recording weight.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to mix grain for milling into blended flour. Respnsibilities include: * Starts belt conveyor and adjusts valve controls on automatic feeders to regulate proportions of specified grades of grain flowing from storage tanks onto conveyor. * Starts conveyors to transfer grain to milling department. * May inspect grain for smut, rust, or other contamination. * May find weight of minimum test bushel by filling standard measure with grain and recording weight.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to mix ingredients used in preparing mincemeat. Respnsibilities include: * Weighs and measures ingredients, such as raisins, currants, ground orange peels, salt, spices, and hot water, using platform scale and measuring containers. * Dumps ingredients from measuring containers into kettle and activates agitator to mix ingredients for specified period of time. * Turns valve to permit ingredients to flow from kettle into cooling trough preparatory to canning.
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A professional who tends equipment that blends, inverts, and cools edible sugar syrups according to production schedules. Respnsibilities include: * Opens valves and starts pumps to move specified amounts of syrups and inverting materials from storage to mixing tanks. * Calculates proportions of ingredients when blending syrups other than standard. * Conducts light tests to determine viscosity and color of syrup, using refractometer and polariscope. * Bottles samples of products for laboratory analysis. * Opens valves to route and distribute syrups to tank cars or trucks. * Maintains production and distribution records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to mix ingredients that produce syrups used in canned fruits and preserves, flavorings, frozen novelty confections, or non-alcoholic beverages. Respnsibilities include: * Determines amounts of ingredients, such as sugar, water, and flavoring, required for specified quantity of syrup of designated specific gravity, using sugar concentration and dilution charts. * Opens valve to admit liquid sugar and water into mixer, or dumps crystalline sugar into mixer and admits water. * Adds flavoring ingredients and starts mixer to make syrup. * Opens valve to admit steam into jacket of mixer to invert sugar, eliminate air, and sterilize syrup. * Tests syrup for sugar content, using hydrometer or refractometer. * Pumps syrup to storage tank. * May filter syrup to remove impurities and be designated Syrup Filterer. * May blend raw syrups and be designated Syrup Blender.
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A professional who tends equipment to separate starch from ground potatoes, and adds chemicals to resulting solution to produce starch of specified purity. Respnsibilities include: * Flushes shaker screen containing ground potatoes, using water hose, to remove foreign matter and form crude starch suspension. * Turns valves to admit suspension and water to settling and rewash tanks in which impurities rise to surface, forming scum. * Turns valves to transfer scum (brown starch) to starch tables and settling tanks until all white starch has been separated. * Drains salvaged starch into vat, starts agitator, and adds equal volume of water to form white starch suspension prior to drying. * Determines acidity, viscosity, and bacteria content of suspension, using pH meter and viscometer. * Adds measured amounts of specified chemicals to further purify and preserve product.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares charts of quantities, grades, and types of cheese required for blending to make cheese products. Respnsibilities include: * Feels, tastes, smells, and observes cheese for firmness, mellowness, acidity, and color, and selects cheese products for specified blend. * Calculates quantities of cheese required for each batch, according to formula, and records quantities, grades, and types on chart. * Compares laboratory reports with specifications and alters calculations to achieve specified body, texture, flavor, moisture, fat, acidity, and salt in finished product.
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A professional who prepares, bottles, and sterilizes infant formulas. Respnsibilities include: * Weighs or measures and mixes specified quantities of ingredients, such as evaporated, condensed, or powdered milk, food supplements, sugar product, soy product, and prepared meat base, using scales, graduated measures, spoons, and electric blender. * Computes number of calories per fluid ounce of formula from information on labels of ingredients, and records information on gummed label and places on bottles. * Pours formula into bottles, seals with nipple, protector cap, and collar, and places in autoclave for prescribed length of time to sterilize, or affixes hermetically sealed protector caps and places in commercial retort for sterilization and cooling. * Removes sterilized bottles from autoclave and stores in refrigerator or removes bottles from retort after cooling process and packages for delivery. * Washes and sterilizes empty bottles and unused nipples and caps. * May be known according to specific duties performed as Formula Bottler; Formula Maker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles, weighs, and measures candy ingredients, such as egg whites and butter, according to formula. Respnsibilities include: * Selects batch formula cards in accordance with type of batch scheduled. * Weighs dry ingredients on scales and pours liquid ingredients into graduated containers. * Attaches formula card and identifying batch number to containers of measured ingredients for use by candy makers. * Keeps record of batches produced. * May weigh ingredients, such as nuts, flavoring, extracts, condiments, and shortening that are not metered mechanically.
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A professional who tends one or more machines that churn processed shortening and margarine to obtain specified viscosity of mixture. Respnsibilities include: * Observes flow of stock in churner to avoid spilling. * Adjusts valves to control and direct overflow into reprocessing tank. * Starts machine to churn mixture, stops machine when specified viscosity is obtained, and opens valves and starts pump to transfer mixture. * Adjusts governor to regulate speed of pump that transfers product into packaging machines. * Collects and weighs sample of shortening at prescribed intervals to determine amount of nitrogen gas or air content in batch, using balance scale. * Notifies votator-machine operator to add or delete nitrogen gas, according to weight standards. * Adjusts valves to keep specified temperature in churner. * Observes pressure and temperature gauges, and records readings. * Cleans equipment and lines, using pressurized steam and nitrogen gas.
Industry:Professional careers