- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that chops and mixes ground meat into emulsion for use in making such products as bologna, meat loaves, sausages, and wieners. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps ground meat and premixed seasonings into chopping machine, using fork or hoist, or pulls lever to raise hopper and turns valve to feed meat trimmings into chopping machine.
* Pours designated amount of premixed seasonings and water or ice into chopping machine to season, moisten, and obtain specified temperature of mixture.
* Starts machine to mix emulsion to specified consistency.
* Stops machine and pulls lever to lower center core of mixing bowl and discharge emulsion into pan or truck.
* Scrapes emulsion from bowl.
* May push truck filled with emulsion to stuffing machine.
* May grind meat.
* May add ingredients, such as pickles, olives, and pimentos to emulsion.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that mixes and churns ingredients to produce margarine. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to admit preweighed ingredients, such as milk, water, and oil, into mixing vat.
* Weighs or measures additives, such as emulsifier, preservatives, salt, and vitamins, according to formula, using scale or graduate.
* Dumps additives into mixing vat.
* Starts agitator that blends and emulsifies ingredients.
* Observes temperature gauge and adjusts steam valve to maintain specified temperature in vat.
* Stops agitator after specified period of time, and turns valve to transfer ingredients to cooling unit.
* May pasteurize milk.
* May harden emulsion.
* May test milk for acidity.
* May disassemble and clean stock lines, and change filtering apparatus.
* May mix ingredients for vegetable shortening and be designated Shortening Mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes dry ingredients to make cocoa blends and dairy powder mixes. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs out specified amounts of ingredients, such as sugar, powdered milk, and cocoa, according to formula, and dumps ingredients into mixing machine.
* Starts machine that mixes ingredients for specified length of time.
* Opens machine valve and starts conveyor to transfer mixed batch to storage.
* Collects sample of completed mix for laboratory analysis.
* May add ingredients and remix batch, according to laboratory recommendation.
* May be designated according to product mixed as Dairy-Powder-Mixer Operator.
* May tend panel-controlled conveyorized system that transfers measured amounts of ingredients from respective bins to continuous mixing machine and be designated Quick-Mixer Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that extrude chocolate or nonchocolate confectionery mixture through die plate onto conveyor to form such products as stars, chips, or sheets. Respnsibilities include:
* Attaches specified die plate to machine, using handtools.
* Starts machine and observes action to ensure that confection is forming according to standards.
* May clamp metal bar to bed of conveyor to form mixture into sheets.
* May be designated according to design of product as Chocolate-Drops-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends heated vats to mix and cook tobacco casing fluid ingredients. Respnsibilities include:
* Admits steam into jacket of vat.
* Dumps solid ingredients into vat and pours liquids from pail or turns valve to admit liquids, following written or oral instructions.
* Starts agitator in vat or stirs mixture with paddle to mix ingredients and prevent them from boiling over.
* Starts pump or removes bung from bottom of vat, after mixture is cooked into syrup, to transfer casing fluid to storage tanks.
* May measure specific gravity of fluid, using hydrometer, and add water, according to consistency of mix.
* May weigh or measure cooked ingredients.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends heated vats to mix and cook tobacco casing fluid ingredients. Respnsibilities include:
* Admits steam into jacket of vat.
* Dumps solid ingredients into vat and pours liquids from pail or turns valve to admit liquids, following written or oral instructions.
* Starts agitator in vat or stirs mixture with paddle to mix ingredients and prevent them from boiling over.
* Starts pump or removes bung from bottom of vat, after mixture is cooked into syrup, to transfer casing fluid to storage tanks.
* May measure specific gravity of fluid, using hydrometer, and add water, according to consistency of mix.
* May weigh or measure cooked ingredients.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that automatically divide, round, proof, and shape dough into units of specified size and weight, according to work order, preparatory to baking. Respnsibilities include:
* Presses buttons and turns dials or handcranks to start machines and to adjust capacity of dividing compartments and speed of feeding conveyor on dividing machine.
* Weighs units of dough, using balance scale, and adjusts machine when units vary from standard.
* Scoops flour or starch into sifters which automatically dust units of dough to prevent sticking.
* Observes progress of units of dough through machines that automatically round, proof, and shape dough.
* Turns rheostats to control speed of proofing and molding machine conveyors.
* Inspects shaped units of dough as they are ejected into pans from molding machine and discards misshapen units.
* May place dough in pans by hand, position pans in racks, and push racks to holding area for proofing.
* May fill reservoir of automatic feeding device with seeds, such as sesame, caraway, and poppy seeds, when processing buns.
* May be designated according to machine tended as Molding-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that kneads dough to desired texture. Respnsibilities include:
* Sprinkles roller and catching apron of machine with flour to keep dough from sticking.
* Starts machine and turns handwheels to adjust distance between rollers.
* Cuts off lump of dough in trough and inserts dough between rollers.
* Catches dough as it extrudes from machine and reinserts it at different angles until texture reaches desired consistency.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends agitator tubs that blend ingredients used in making stock feed. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to admit measured amounts of materials, such as bran, gluten, and steep water into tubs, and starts paddle agitators.
* Feels sample of mixture to determine if feed consistency meets plant standard.
* Pulls lever to open sliding gate and drain mixture from tubs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that mix stock or poultry feed according to formula and conveys it to packing machine or storage. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps specified number of sacks of meal, mash, grain, and meat scrap into machine hopper, or presses buttons on control panel to transfer individual ingredients from separate bins to batch scale hopper until specified weight of each ingredient is obtained.
* Weighs additives, such as minerals and vitamins, and dumps them into hopper.
* Starts machine to mix ingredients, and starts elevators and conveyors to transfer feed to storage tanks or packing machine hoppers.
* May match color of mix with standard sample by adjusting automatic feeder controls to regulate amount of ingredient in mix.
* May adjust nozzles, rheostat, or steam controls to spray heated molasses onto feed.
* May record weight of feed mixed or ingredients used.
* May be designated according to type of feed mixed as Dairy-Feed-Mixing Operator; Poultry-Feed-Mixer Operator; or according to ingredient mixed with feed as Limer; Molasses-Feed Mixer.
* May tend machines that automatically weigh out specified amounts of mash and grain prior to mixing with ingredients and be designated Feeder Operator, Automatic.
Industry:Professional careers
