- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who assists cocoa-bean roaster i and cocoa-bean roaster ii to process cocoa beans preparatory to making cocoa, chocolate, or other cocoa products. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives signal to charge and discharge cocoa beans from roasting ovens.
* Observes thermometers and clock and notifies supervisor of deviations from specific temperature or roasting cycle.
* Starts conveyors to move cocoa bean shells from cracker and fanner to shell cleaning machines or to transfer cleaned nibs (cracked roasted cocoa beans) to treating drums.
* Examines shells for presence of nibs and dumps shells into cracker and fanner machine to recover nibs.
* May tend cleaning machine.
* May mix potassium solution used in processing cocoa beans to make dutch process chocolate.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends jacketed kettles to temper chocolate used for coating baked products. Respnsibilities include:
* Breaks slabs of prepared chocolate into pieces and dumps pieces into kettle.
* Turns valves to adjust kettle heat to specified temperature to melt chocolate.
* Starts agitator.
* Opens water valve to cool mixture to desired consistency.
* Opens valve to drain mixture into container and dumps chocolate into enrobing machine tank.
* May mix cocoa butter with melted chocolate for use as filling.
* May process grain to form gluten and be designated Premix Operator, Concentrate.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls water-jacketed kettles or automatic equipment that tempers chocolate preparatory to molding or coating operations. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps to transfer specified quantity of chocolate from storage tanks or dumps block chocolate into tempering kettles.
* Observes thermometer and turns valves to admit water or steam into jacket of kettle and to alternately heat and cool chocolate, according to temperature time chart specifications.
* Starts agitators and scrapers to mix chocolate in tank.
* Tests viscosity of chocolate with viscosimeter, and adds cocoa butter and lecithin as required.
* Pumps chocolate from tempering kettle through water-cooled column when using automatic tempering equipment.
* Sets thermometer dial to regulate temperature of chocolate to achieve specified temper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls gas fired roasters to remove moisture from coffee beans. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs batch of coffee beans in scale-hopper, and opens chute to allow beans to flow into roasting oven.
* Observes thermometer and adjusts controls to maintain required temperature.
* Compares color of roasting beans in oven with standard to estimate roasting time.
* Opens discharge gate to dump roasted beans into cooling tray.
* Starts machine that blows air through beans to cool them.
* Records amounts, types, and blends of coffee beans roasted.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls operation of steam-jacketed cooker that heats mixture of starch and acid to make dextrine paste. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens gate on overhead chute or shovels starch into cooker.
* Adds specified amount of acid to start starch conversion process.
* Turns valves to admit steam into jacket of cooker.
* Starts agitator to stir cooking starch.
* Observes process to determine when conversion to dextrine is made and turns valve to transfer dextrine to storage tanks or drums.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls vacuum-drying equipment to convert egg or milk liquids into powder of specified moisture content. Respnsibilities include:
* Couples spray unit between pipeline and drier, using wrench.
* Places charts in temperature and vacuum recorders.
* Starts gas-fired drier, vacuum pump, and circulating fan, and adjusts dampers.
* Turns controls and observes gauges to obtain specified temperature and vacuum pressure in dryer.
* Starts pump and turns valves to spray liquid into heated vacuum chamber where milk droplets are dried into powder.
* Tests dried powder conveyed out of drier, using meter.
* Observes interior of chamber walls for burned scale which indicates excessive temperature.
* Adjusts temperature of dryer and amount of liquid sprayed into dryer to obtain specified moisture content and eliminate scale which appears as sediment in powder.
* Places container on scale under outlet of drying equipment to fill container with specified amount of powder.
* May be designated according to product dried as Buttermilk-Drier Operator; Yolk Spray Drier.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates steam-heated drum drier in vacuum tank to dry liquid cereal mixture to specified consistency. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts temperature regulator of vacuum tank to specified setting.
* Starts vacuum pump and revolving drum in vacuum tank.
* Turns valve to raise level of liquid in pan beneath drum, causing thin film of liquid to dry as it contacts rotating drum.
* Turns valve and moves controls to regulate drum temperature and speed and level of liquid in pan to attain specified color and consistency of dried cereal.
* Installs scraping blade that peels dried cereal from drum into handtruck, using wrench.
* Opens vacuum chamber and removes loaded handtruck.
* Pushes truck onto scale, records weight, and trips lever to dump contents into hopper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls gas-fired furnace that heats malt drying kilns. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes ignition switch and turns gas valve to light furnace.
* Observes temperature gauge or recording charts, and adjusts gas valves, dampers, and speeds of draft and exhaust fans to maintain specified temperature in kiln.
* May move levers that tip floor sections of kiln to drop dried malt into storage hopper.
* May open and control slide gate of storage hopper dispensing malt to cleaning machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates percolating equipment to produce liquid mixture of water, grain, and other ingredients according to formula, as part of cereal-manufacturing process. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts agitator and turns valves to draw premeasured amounts of milled grain, water, and other ingredients into percolating vessel.
* Sets temperature regulator of vessel at specified setting.
* Turns valve at bottom of tank to draw off liquid percolate into storage tanks.
* Tests sample of percolate, using hydrometer, to determine concentration of liquid filter bed and turns valve to shut off percolate flowing to storage tanks when hydrometer indicates ingredients in filter bed are exhausted.
* Pulls lever to dump spent grain mixture into handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls heating equipment in tobacco barns to cure tobacco. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts coal or wood fire in furnace, lights oil or gas burner, or turns on electric furnace to heat barn.
* Regulates temperature and draft controls, depending on type of tobacco and weather conditions, until leaves are yellowed.
* Observes color and moisture content of leaves to determine when to increase heat and regulate draft controls to dry leaves and stems.
* When bulk curing barns (tobacco leaves packed in metal racks and cured by forced air heat) are used, starts and regulates fan speed to control movement of air and heat through tobacco leaves.
Industry:Professional careers
